One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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