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One 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.

Abraham Maslow

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
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Consideration Happiness Important People Work
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Human Men Race Sell Story Women
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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Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
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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Abandonment Amaze Creative Face Miracle
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
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
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
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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Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness
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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Belief God Hero Human Being Refuge Saint Wise
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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Appreciation Fresh Life Mental Health Pleasure Wellness Wonder
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
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Celebrity Deserve External Fame Health Respect Self Esteem Stable Warrant
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value

One 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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