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Man, whatever else he may be, is primarily a practical being, whose mind is given him to aid in adapting him to this world’s life

William James

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
To give up pretensions is as blessed a relief as to get them ratified.
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Blessed Deception Giving Up
You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Anything Dream Everything May
A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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Change Dream Inspirational
Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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Men Small Rooms Thinking
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Children Effortless Reading Sky
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
The ‘I think’ which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the ‘I breathe’ which actually does accompany them.
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Able Accompanying Thinking
When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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Decision Order Responsibility
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
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Encouraging Life Positive
One of the greatest discoveries of our time is that a man can alter the state of their life by altering the state of their mind.
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Discovery Men Mind
Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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Believe Faith Philosophical
Language is the most imperfect and expensive means yet discovered for communicating thought.
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Imperfect Language Mean
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground

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