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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

William James

There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Evil Healthy Individual
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
Our intelligence cannot wall itself up alive, like a pupa in a chrysalis. It must at any cost keep on speaking terms with the universe that engendered it.
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Alive Cost Wall
We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Book Cat Conservations Dog
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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Differences Everything Insightful Making
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism.
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Heroism Reality Theatre
Man alone of all the creatures of earth can change his own pattern. Man alone is the architect of his own destiny.
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Destiny Men Tree
To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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Deny Neglect Wise
How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Happiness Laughter Men

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