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Pain and pleasure occur in consciousness and exist only there

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A person who forgoes the use of his symbolic skills is never really free.

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It is by becoming increasingly complex that the self might be said to grow.

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A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.

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Getting control of life is never easy, and sometimes it can be definitely painful.

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We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

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Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

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An ideal organization is one in which each worker's potentialities find room for expression.

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People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

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Entropy is the normal state of consciousness - a condition that is neither useful nor enjoyable.

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Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.

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The task is to learn how to enjoy everyday life without diminishing other people's chances to enjoy theirs.

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It is how people respond to stress that determines whether they will profit from misfortune or be miserable.

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Find out what you like and what you hate about life. Start doing more of what you love, less of what you hate.

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But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

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To be successful you have to enjoy doing your best while at the same time contributing to something beyond yourself.

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But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.

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A business is successful to the extent that it provides a product or service that contributes to happiness in all of its forms.

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Competition is enjoyable only when it is a means to perfect one's skills; when it becomes an end in itself, it ceases to be fun.

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The most important step in emancipating oneself from social controls is the ability to find rewards in the events of each moment.

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Attention is psychic energy, and like physical energy, unless we allocate some part of it to the task at hand, no work gets done.

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If an enterprise does not aspire to be the best of its kind, it will attract second-rate employees, and it will be soon forgotten.

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We can either help to make this world a more incredible place than it has ever been, or we can hasten its return to inorganic dust.

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One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

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Enjoyment appears at the boundary between boredom and anxiety, when the challenges are just balanced with the person's capacity to act.

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Knowing oneself is not so much a question of discovering what is present in one's self, but rather the creation of who one wants to be.

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There will be no good business unless the majority comes to agree that we should demand more from business than large quarterly returns.

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Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to help the most people?'"

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As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

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The ability to take misfortune and make something good come of it is a rare gift. Those who possess it are..said to have resilience or courage.

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