Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESEarnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The attitude of unhappiness is not only painful, it is mean and ugly.
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With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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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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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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New habits can be launched.
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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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The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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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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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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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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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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