Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
WILLIAM JAMESReligious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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The power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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