It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIn any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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, 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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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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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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What one can be, one must be!
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