The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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 spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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What one can be, one must be!
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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 is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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