The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
WILLIAM JAMESReligious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
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We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can’t tolerate.
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Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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When once a decision is reached and execution is the order of the day, dismiss absolutely all responsibility and care about the outcome.
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The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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In business for yourself, not by yourself.
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Truth happens to an idea
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As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.
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The deepest human need is the need to be appreciated.
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