Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
WILLIAM JAMESMost people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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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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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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