It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOWObviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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 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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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One’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 the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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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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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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