Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
WILLIAM JAMESMan 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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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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The instant field of the present is at all times what I call the ‘pure’ experience. It is only virtually or potentially either object or subject as yet.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Truth for us is simply a collective name for verification processes
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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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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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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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