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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe 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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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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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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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