The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESTo neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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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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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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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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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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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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Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Man can change his life simply by changing his attitude.
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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving 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 wrong always, everywhere, and for everyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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