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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.

Abraham Maslow

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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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
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
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
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
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
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
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
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
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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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
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People

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