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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

The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
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
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 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
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self

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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