The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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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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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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History is a bath of blood.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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If merely ‘feeling good’ could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.
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There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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