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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

Abraham Maslow

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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Comprehensive Experience Leave Philosophy Proportion Tragedy
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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Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
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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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
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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Blunder Eventually Management Mistake Necessary Psycology
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
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
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Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People 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
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
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
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

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