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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

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
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Encounter Hammer Man Nail
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
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
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
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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Appearance Decent Human Love Pain Security Self Esteem Stress
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
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
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 crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
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
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
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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Characteristic Essence Human Human Nature Life Spiritual
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
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
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
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
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
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
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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Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
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
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human

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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