That which is most personal, is most interesting.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Truth happens to an idea
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Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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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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Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.
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You can alter your life by altering the state of your mind.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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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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Time itself comes in drops.
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Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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