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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

Abraham Maslow

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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Capable Life Planning Unhappiness
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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Behavior Man Stupid Stupidity Try
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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Appearance Decent Human Love Pain Security Self Esteem Stress
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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Appreciation Capacity Ecstasy Fortumate Gratitude Life Pleasure Wonder Wonderful
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Encounter Hammer Man Nail
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness

The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.

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