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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Abraham Maslow

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Artist Himself Music Paint Peace Poet Ultimate Writing
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
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
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
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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Choice Defense Fear Growth Life Process Progress Risk Safety Time
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
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
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
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
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
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

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