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The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.

Hans Selye

My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.
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Advice Beginning Career Mindset Person Prejudice Young
The true scientist never loses the faculty of amazement.
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Amazement Faculty Lose Science True
Stress is not necessarily something bad it all depends on how you take it. The stress of exhilarating, creative successful work is beneficial, while that of failure, humiliation or infection is detrimental.
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Bad Creativity Failure Infection Necessary Stress
The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.
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Emotion Gratitude Health Human
Even after the greatest defeats, the depressing thought of being a failure is best combated by taking stock of all your past achievements.
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Achievement Defeat Failure Greatness Past Yourself
Almost no germ is unconditionally dangerous to man; its disease-producing ability depends upon the body’s resistance.
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Ability Body Dangerous Man Resistance
To remain healthy a man must have some goal, some purpose in life that he can respect and be proud to work for.
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Goal Health Proud Purpose Respect Work
Complete freedom from stress is death.
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Complete Death Freedom One Liner Stress
Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.
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Kill Ourselves Reaction Stress
Gratitude conserves the vital energies of a person more than any other attitude tested.
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Attitude Energy Gratitude Person Test
If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions .
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Contribution Focus Life Live
Gratitude is the most important of all human emotions.
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Emotion Gratitude Human Important
Indeed, not all attacks-especially the bitter and ridiculing kind leveled at Darwin-are offered in good faith, but for practical purposes it is good policy to assume that they are.
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Assumption Attack Faith Goodness Kind Offering Policy Purpose
Man should not try to avoid stress any more than he would shun food, love or exercise.
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Avoid Exercise Food Man Stress Try
To be totally without stress is to be dead.
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Death Stress
Who would enjoy a life of no runs, no hits, no errors?
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Enjoyment Errors Life Mistake

The healthiest of all human emotions is gratitude.

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