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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

William James

Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Based Inspirational Life Test
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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Discovery Men Mind
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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Facts Knowledge Science
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
The emotions aren’t always immediately subject to reason, but they are always immediately subject to action.
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Action Emotional Feelings
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter

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