Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESWe 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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So to feel brave, act as if we were brave, use all our will to that end…and a courage-fit will very likely replace the fit of fear.
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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Truth happens to an idea
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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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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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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A new opinion counts as true just in proportion as it gratifies the individual’s desire to assimilate the novel in his experience to his beliefs in stock
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A man of sense is never discouraged by difficulties; he redoubles his industry and his diligence, he perseveres and infallibly prevails at last.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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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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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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