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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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