Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.
WILLIAM JAMESDeepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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If 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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Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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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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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Faith is synonymous with working hypothesis.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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