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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.

William James

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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Intellectual Men Order
If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Appreciation Attitude Philosophy
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love
The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Life Stay Strong Ties
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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Attention Belief Facts
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
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Circles People Sith
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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Choices Differences Men Savage
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Becoming Great Focus Woods
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
Men habitually use only a small part of the power which they actually possess.
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Men Parts Small Use
Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Chapters Egotism Religion

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