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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.

William James

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
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
Time itself comes in drops.
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Come Drop Philosophical Itself
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Habit is a second nature, or rather, it is ‘ten times nature’.
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Educational Inspirational Philosophy
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Attention Education Excellence
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Objects Truth World
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.
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Failure Lows Person
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
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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Flux Names Reflection
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
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
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 drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion

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