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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

William James

We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground
Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.
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Men Philosophical Philosophy
The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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Community Friendship Sympathy
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
There’s nothing so absurd that if you repeat it often enough, people will believe it.
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Believe People Propaganda
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
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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All Fields Instant Time
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Individuality is founded in feeling
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Feelings Individuality Inspirational
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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Credit Facts Truth
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
Both thought and feeling are determinants of conduct, and the same conduct may be determined either by feeling or by thought.
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Determine Feelings May

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