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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.

William James

Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
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
On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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God Principles Theism
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
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
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Accepting Daring Ideas
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy

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