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The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

William James

Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
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
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
History is a bath of blood.
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Bath Blood History
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
We are stereotyped creatures, imitators and copiers of our past selves.
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Habit Past Self

The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.

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