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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.

Abraham Maslow

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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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
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
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
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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Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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
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
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
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
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
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
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
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
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
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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Family Friendship Lesson Life Neighbor Ordinary Sacred

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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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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