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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.

William James

You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Country Teacher Teaching
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
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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Belief Desire Truth
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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Mind Peculiar Self
Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Cases Matter Philosophical
The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.
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Ideas Men Twenties
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men

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