The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne’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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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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