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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.

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
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Learning Philosophical Wisdom
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Common Dance Humor Sense
At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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Acceptance Wisdom Wise
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Is life worth living? It all depends on the liver.
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Humorous Life Philosophical
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
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
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
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 deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
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
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

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