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The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.

William James

All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Attitude Procrastination Tasks
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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Political Volunteer War
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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Mind Philosophy Quiet
Truth happens to an idea
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Happens Ideas Truth
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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Art Force Process
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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Happiness Laughter Men
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
Genius is the capacity for seeing relationships where lesser men see none.
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Capacity Genius Men
Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Character Mean Organization
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Change Life Positive
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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Opposites Statement Truth
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen

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