Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
WILLIAM JAMESWhen thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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It is wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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