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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Abraham Maslow

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
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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Belong Love Need Outside People Person Relationship Respect Safety Satisfaction
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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Failure King Live Man Potential Rival Treat
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
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Encounter Hammer Man Nail
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
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
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
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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Appreciation Fresh Life Mental Health Pleasure Wellness Wonder
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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Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
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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Behavior Man Stupid Stupidity Try
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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Characteristic Essence Human Human Nature Life Spiritual
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.
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Blunder Eventually Management Mistake Necessary Psycology

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