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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

William James

Philosophy lives in words, but truth and fact well up into our lives in ways that exceed verbal formulation.
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Facts Philosophy Way
The strenuous life tastes better
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Better Strenuous Taste
To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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Art Life Positive
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Differences Important Personality
An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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Ethics Philosophical Quality
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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Inspirational Positive Success
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
All natural goods perish. Riches take wings; fame is a breath; love is a cheat; youth and health and pleasure vanish.
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Health Love Wings
The general law is that no mental modification ever occurs which is not accompanied or followed by a bodily change.
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Law Medicine Philosophy
The most immutable barrier in nature is between one man’s thoughts and another’s.
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Barriers Immutable Men
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains; under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core.
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Culture Life Real
If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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Changing Immediately Life Want

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