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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James

There can be no difference anywhere that does not make a difference somewhere.
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Differences Making Somewhere
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
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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Art Force Process
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
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
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Attitude Philosophical Positive
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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Example Human Nature Proud
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational

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