The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
WILLIAM JAMESA new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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But facts are facts, and if we only get enough of them theyare sure to combine.
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The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Individuality is founded in feeling
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The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
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A sense of humor is just common sense dancing.
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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The question of free will is insoluble on strictly psychological grounds.
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He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had failed.
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New habits can be launched.
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The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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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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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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