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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

Abraham Maslow

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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Characteristic Essence Human Human Nature Life Spiritual
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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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
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
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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Choice Defense Fear Growth Life Process Progress Risk Safety Time
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
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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Beautiful Fate Fortune Human Being Inspirational Love Passionate Wonderful
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
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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Blunder Eventually Management Mistake Necessary Psycology
What one can be, one must be!
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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Failure King Live Man Potential Rival Treat
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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Belief God Hero Human Being Refuge Saint Wise
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human

People are not evil; they are schlemiels.

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