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When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.

William James

The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
Tension is a habit. Relaxing is a habit. Bad habits can be broken, good habits formed.
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Broken Funny Habit
The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
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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Art Life Positive
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Growth Men Years
Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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Clever Motivational Procrastination
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
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Positive Wisdom Wise
Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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Change Life Philosophical
Modern man . . . has not ceased to be credulous . . . the need to believe haunts him.
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Believe Men Needs
With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation.
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Attempt Failure Humiliation No
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Details Generalization Knowledge

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