The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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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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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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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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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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What one can be, one must be!
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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