The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESIf you want to change your life, do it flamboyantly and start immediately.
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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
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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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Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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History is a bath of blood.
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That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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To neglect the wise sayings of great thinkers is to deny ourselves the truest education.
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It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.
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We must be careful not to confuse data with the abstractions we use to analyse them.
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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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We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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