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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

William James

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
WILLIAM JAMES

Clever Motivational Procrastination
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
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
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 attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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Attitude Mean Ugly
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
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
We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Best Cute Friendship Friend Quality
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 religions begin with the cry Help.
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Cry Helping Religion
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying

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