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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

William James

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Bells Tolls Truth
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Art Force Process
A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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Belief Desire Truth
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify

Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.

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