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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe 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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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What one can be, one must be!
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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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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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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