I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
WILLIAM JAMESSuccess plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Most unhappiness is caused because people listen to themselves… instead of talking to themselves.
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Facts’ are the bounds of human knowledge, set for it, not by it.
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If you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.
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Procrastination is attitude’s natural assassin. There’s nothing so fatiguing as an uncompleted task
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Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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No bell in us tolls to let us know for certain when truth is in our grasp.
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Once you accept an idea, it’s an idea whose time has come.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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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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