Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
ABRAHAM MASLOWA 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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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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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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