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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

William James

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want
If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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Alcohol Feel Feelings Good
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Anticipation Brave Use
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
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Fear Happiness Stress
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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Meaningful Motivational Perseverance
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
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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Finals Lasts Men
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
Man, biologically considered … is simply the most formidable of all beasts of prey, and, indeed, the only one that preys systematically on its own kind.
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Beast Kind Men
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles

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