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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

Abraham Maslow

Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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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Celebrity Deserve External Fame Health Respect Self Esteem Stable Warrant
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
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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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
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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Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People
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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Belief God Hero Human Being Refuge Saint Wise
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
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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Abandonment Amaze Creative Face Miracle
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Human Men Race Sell Story Women
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
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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Appreciation Capacity Ecstasy Fortumate Gratitude Life Pleasure Wonder Wonderful
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Blunder Eventually Management Mistake Necessary Psycology
It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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Achievement Desire Difficult Psychology Rare Want

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

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