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

William James

All of our life is but a mass of small habits – practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
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Destiny Military Spiritual
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck.
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Devil Feet Long
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Civilization Class Fear
Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
The aim of a college education is to teach you to know a good man when you see one.
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Die Education Philosophical
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.
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Asceticism Ease Expression

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

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