Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
WILLIAM JAMESIf 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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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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The teachers of this country, one may say, have its future in their hands.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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