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• "“What makes us human?” These are the nature of the human being, its interiority, its exteriority and the self."

  — Attributed to Saint Augustine of Hippo

  What makes us human? Augustine on interiority, exteriority and the self

• "The strongest of all warriors are these two—time and patience."

  — Leo Tolstoy

  War and Peace

• "Man’s inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn!"

  — Robert Burns

  Man Was Made To Mourn

• "It is a strange quirk of the human condition that the living tend to take life for granted."

  — Jeremy David Engels

  The Art of Gratitude

• "…the social nature of the human being as the source of our uniquely creative intellectual capacities as well as our capacity for anxiety."

  — Rollo May

  The Meaning of Anxiety

• "Just tell me how you judge your childhood and youth, and I will tell you who you are."

  — Søren Kierkegaard

  As cited in: The Quotable Kierkegaard

• "The prudent man aspires not to pleasure, but to the absence of pain."

  — Aristotle

  Nicomachean Ethics

• "Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

  — Seneca

  Seneca Essays: On Providence

• "Daily life, if one is alert to the dynamics of the unconscious, brings us to new levels of realization not only about where we are but who we are."

  — Father Thomas Keating

  The Human Condition: Contemplation and Transformation

• "Inner Bonding is a process of connecting our Adult thoughts with our instinctual gut feelings, the feelings of our “Inner Child,” so that we can live free of conflict within ourselves."

  — Margaret Paul

  Inner Bonding

• "When you know the answer you won’t ask the question."

  — Unknown Zen Master

  Alan Watts, Psychotherapy East & West