The sacred is in the ordinary, in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.

An empty house is better than a bad tenant.

The great home of the soul is the open road.

One of the most effective means for transcending ordinary and moving into the realm of extraordinary is saying yes more frequently and eliminating no almost completely. I call it saying yes to life. Say yes to yourself, to your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business...

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important nonevil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.

When the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems begin to resemble nails.

Every Victim requires a Persecutor. But the Persecutor isn’t always necessarily a person. The Persecutor could also be a condition or a circumstance. A persecuting condition might be a disease or a heart attack, or an injury. A persecuting circumstance could be a natural disaster, like a hurricane or an earthquake or a house burning down.

Is that what I want? The model family, two plus two in an easy home assembly kit? I don't want a model, I want the full-scale original. I don't want to reproduce, I want to make something entirely new.

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general.

Any coward can sit at home and criticize a pilot for flying into a mountain in a fog. But I would rather by far die on a mountainside than in bed.

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