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 MASLOWThe definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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What one can be, one must be!
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The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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