There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest hunger in human beings is the desire 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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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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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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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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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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Individuality is founded in feeling
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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