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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

William James

For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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Political Volunteer War
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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Affection Alpha Omega
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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All Fields Instant Time
Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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Faith Hypothesis
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
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life
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Educational Men Philosophy
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical

If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.

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