Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Give your dreams all you’ve got, and you’ll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.
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New habits can be launched.
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Time itself comes in drops.
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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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