Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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