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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.



The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.



Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.



Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not.



Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits



There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.



Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.



If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.



If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.



I don't sing because I'm happy; I'm happy because I sing.



Science, like life, feeds on its own decay. New facts burst old rules; then newly divined conceptions bind old and new together into a reconciling law.



When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.



Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.



We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can... . The more of the details of our daily life we can hand over to the effortless custody of automatism, the ore our higher powers of mind will be set free for their own proper work



To be conscious means not simply to be, but to be reported, known, to have awareness of one's being added to that being.








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