The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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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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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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