All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
WILLIAM JAMESThe deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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For morality life is a war, and the service of the highest is a sort of cosmic patriotism which also calls for volunteers.
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To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Truth happens to an idea
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It is art that makes life, and I know of no substitute whatsoever for the force and beauty of its process.
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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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