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… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.

William James

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
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 hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
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
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression
The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Intellectual Men Order
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
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
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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Altering Life Mind States
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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Names Process Truth
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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Fears Form Great Life Things
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational

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