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"It's not what we do once-it's what we do once a day, day in and day out, every day that brings lasting change into our lives."

"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."

"Routines are normal, natural, healthy things. Most of us take a shower and brush our teeth every day. That is a good routine. Spiritual disciplines are routines. That is a good thing. But once routines become routine you need to change your routine."

"I am not a politician, and my other habits air good."

"I'm not a politician and my other habits are good."

"Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."

"A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them."
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"Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse."

"In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of interdependence."

"The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month."

"Half of the secular unrest and dismal, profane sadness of modern society comes from the vain ideas that every man is bound to be a critic for life."

"There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart - never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening."

"There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher."

"There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can."

"To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us; and surely it is a good haven to sail for."
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