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

William James

Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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People Talking Unhappiness
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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Becoming Gone Instant
So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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Feelings Self World
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.
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Law Science Together
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
If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Leadership Motivation Philosophical
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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Encouragement Encouraging Inspirational
The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Math Passion Union

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