The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESFocus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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Touch is the alpha and omega of affection.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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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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Focus on increasing service. Becoming great where you are. Pile in the wood. The heat will follow.
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You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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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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With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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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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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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