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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.

William James

All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.
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Hate Inspirational Life
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
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy

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