In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf 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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Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
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The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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What one can be, one must be!
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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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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