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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.

William James

In the matter of belief, we are all extreme conservatives.
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Belief Extremes Matter
The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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Free Will Psychological
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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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Anticipation Brave Use
True to her inveterate habit, rationalism reverts to ‘principles,’ and thinks that when an abstraction once is named, we own an oracular solution.
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Habit Principles Thinking
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
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.
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Mind Peculiar Self
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy

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