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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
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
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Human Men Race Sell Story Women
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Consideration Happiness Important People Work
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 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
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
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
Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
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Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
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
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
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves

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