builds character. Other people enjoy being around others who are honest with them. Honesty expresses both self-respect and respect for others. I believe that being honest is important because it strengthens the trust that others have in you. We find ourselves in positions where we could either lie or tell the truth. Honesty is telling the whole truth‚ even if it gets you into trouble. Although being honest is hard to do at times‚ there is truth in the meaning that “honesty is the best policy”. I believe
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things in the right place. Better self-awareness can let us know how our behaviors influence others. 3. Self-acceptance Self-acceptance means accepting ourselves fully for the person we are. No matter the things we like about ourselves or we don’t like‚ we also take a positive way to face and accept them. If we can learn to accept ourselves exactly as we are‚ the happier‚ healthier and more creative we will be. 4. Motivation Motivation can be gained from anything in our life. It can be
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as the human race to give something in return. We really don`t want to give our next generations a planet in such a condition that there will not be any hope for survival? If we all‚ each and one of us go deep inside ourselves and in our heart are honest towards ourselves: I do not think‚ I am sure that the answer would be a universal NO‚ we do not want this. In our heart we want peace‚ happiness‚ love and a healthy planet. We all hunger for it. This I think is a universal wish
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others by crying. When we age‚ we get better with our skills and learn to talk we can tell people when we need food or water. If we are unable to speak we may learn other ways such as sign language or hand signals. We also survive by keeping ourselves safe. If there is an unsafe situation you use communication to make it safe. Tell someone you trust or need to fix it. A plumber may be called to fix a stopped toilet. A sheriff if someone is breaking into your house. We alert people as soon as we
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The theme our group has chosen is acceptance. The virtue of acceptance means we accept ourselves and others just the way we are. It means to love and welcome everyone just like Jesus Christ. There is nothing wrong in being different because we’re all perfect. God created all of us and He makes no mistakes. An accepting person is happy with who he/she is‚ treats everybody equally‚ and is non-judgmental. This is especially important in today’s society because we face so much discrimination. Discrimination
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of self-discovery? Cite examples from Oedipus and one other piece we have read in class or own experience.” We must have gone through searches of identities in our lives. At that time‚ we might be confused by how other saw us and how we saw ourselves. Some would start reject themselves‚ and others would learn to accept. In “Oedipus the King”‚ the author Sophocles uses characterization‚ dramatic irony and symbols to emphasize the obstacles of Oedipus in his search of identity. Sophocles utilizes
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Kant‚” Kant tells us that we have a moral obligation to ourselves and that we must not violate anyone’s rational nature including our own. So‚ how can we use this to analyze the issue of suicide? The categorical imperative tells us that we have a duty to prevent harm to our own rational nature. Suicide harms our rational nature because it is ending our life since our rational nature is to be alive. By committing suicide‚ we are treating ourselves as a means‚ which means to be using our actions to achieve
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Although some may argue that doubt protects us from believing in certainty so much to the point where we lose our sense of reality‚ certainty allows us to accomplish amazing feats‚ pushes us past the limits we set for ourselves‚ and allows us to unlock the unknown potential hidden within ourselves. While some may see doubt as a protector‚ others like myself see it as a hindrance when trying to accomplish what others may see as impossible. Certainty is what allows us to accomplish those things. For example
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or evil? Let us be good for our own sake on our own responsibility! Not because some body way back there was good! (Reminisces of Swami Vivekananda p. 273) We are responsible for what we are‚ and whatever we wish ourselves to be‚ we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions‚ it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act.(I. 31) This human
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experience. Reading some great works of World Literature helps us understand things even ourselves. Because by reading we are exposing ourselves to new ideas‚ we begin to have better judgment on things and we benefit from other’s point of view. We understand ourselves by putting ourselves in the characters’ shoes or seeing our own personalities in literature. It serves as a mirror revealing naked truth about ourselves we often understated and neglected. The significance of studying the
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