Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESTo change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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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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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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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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