The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESProcrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Everything which is demanded is by that fact a good.
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Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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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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Organization and method mean much, but contagious human characters mean more in a university.
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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New habits can be launched.
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