We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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 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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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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