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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

Abraham Maslow

We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
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
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
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
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
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
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
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
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
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
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
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
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

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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