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All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.

William James

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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Important Realizing Teacher
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
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
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Business Inspirational Philosophical
But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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Combine Enough Fact Facts
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
A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.
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Men Philosophy Social
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion

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