In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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