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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

Abraham Maslow

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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Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing
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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Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
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Celebrity Deserve External Fame Health Respect Self Esteem Stable Warrant
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
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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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
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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Belief God Hero Human Being Refuge Saint Wise
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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Appreciation Fresh Life Mental Health Pleasure Wellness Wonder
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves

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