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How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

William James

The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Humans Needs
Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.
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Character Circumstances Enough Repeated
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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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
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Pay Quality Supreme
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
Men’s activities are occupied into ways — in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.
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Men Mind Way
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
With mere good intentions hell is proverbially paved.
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Good Hell Intention Intentions
The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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Inspirational Motivational Relationship
There is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood bu those who hear it.
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Lying Misunderstood Statistics
The God of many men is little more than their court of appeal against the damnatory judgment passed on their failures by the opinion of the world.
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Art Men Philosophy
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
A new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed.
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Men Responsibility Stronger
The first lecture in psychology that I ever heard was the first I ever gave.
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Firsts Lecture Psychology
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

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