A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
WILLIAM JAMESMan, 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
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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The strenuous life tastes better
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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So our self-feeling in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do.
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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