The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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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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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 story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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If 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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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 definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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