The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESWe must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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Truth is something that happens to an idea.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
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The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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New habits can be launched.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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You may not get everything you dream about, but you will never get anything you don’t dream about.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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Our faith is faith in someone else’s faith, and in the greatest matters this is most the case.
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Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
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