To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.
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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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On pragmatistic principles, if the hypothesis of God works satisfactorily in the widest sense of the word, it is true.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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We are proud of a human nature that could be so passionately extreme, but we shrink from advising others to follow the example.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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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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