In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
ABRAHAM MASLOWAppreciate 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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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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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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Obviously 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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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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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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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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I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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