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"Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are."
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Personal Development
"To flourish in life is to live according to the laws of the kingdom that God ordained."
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Personal Development
"Life and calling are founded on relationships with other people."
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Personal Development
"Today's seeds are tomorrow's harvests."
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Personal Development
"Everyone has greatness in them! To bring it out, we just have to empower them."
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Personal Development
"You need to maximize your Gods given potential through the power of your spirit, your inner core, your values and principles on which your life is based."
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Personal Development
"Often we read to strengthen our beliefs but not to think."
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Personal Development
"Everyone thinks money is the capital needed to start up a business or any project of choice. I, however, disagree with that ideology. Money is not the capital that you need. Time is the real capital that anyone needs to start up any project."
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Personal Development
"Win told me that one isn't improved by being at the top of the mountain, one is improved by the climb."
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Personal Development
"Find the right surroundings, the people who will help you to carry out your mission and realize your gift."
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"Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best."
Power
"And the so-called 'political process' is a fraud: Our elected officials, like our bureaucratic functionaries, like even our judges, are largely the indentured servants of the commercial interests."
Corruption
"Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country."
Government
"A drink a day keeps the shrink away."
Health
"There was this tendency to drift. And yet when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be? She had given up dancing-the dance-because it was too demanding, because it required an almost total devotion which she was unwilling to give. The cruelest art."
Art
"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California."
Experience
"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
Honesty
"Beyond the wall of the unreal city there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then -May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night."
Nature
"The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn."
Nature
"Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience."
Religion
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