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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe 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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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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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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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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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