The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESThe greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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It is very important that teachers should realize the importance of habit.
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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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I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
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All religions begin with the cry Help.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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The education of attention would be an education par excellence
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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