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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?

Abraham Maslow

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
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
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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Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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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Choice Defense Fear Growth Life Process Progress Risk Safety Time
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
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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Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
What one can be, one must be!
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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
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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Comprehensive Experience Leave Philosophy Proportion Tragedy
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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Artist Himself Music Paint Peace Poet Ultimate Writing
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
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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Beautiful Fate Fortune Human Being Inspirational Love Passionate Wonderful
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
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism

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