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The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
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If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.
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Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
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To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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An idea, to be suggestive, must come to the individual with the force of revelation.
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The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.
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The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.
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The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.
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