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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

William James

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
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
In all primary school work the principle of multiple impressions is well recognized.
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Educational Philosophy School
The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Demanded Everything Facts
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
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
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.
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Belief Believe Experience Lying
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Boiling Experience Over Way

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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