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All religions and spiritual traditions begin with the cry "Help!
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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
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To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
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Good-humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to Nature that we take her no more seriously than she takes us. I maintain that one should always talk of philosophy with a smile.
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Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit.
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Why may we not be in the universe, as our dogs and cats are in our drawingrooms and libraries?
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Knowledge about a thing is not the thing itself.
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If merely 'feeling good' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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