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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.

Abraham Maslow

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Encounter Hammer Man Nail
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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Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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Comprehensive Experience Leave Philosophy Proportion Tragedy
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
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
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
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
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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Beautiful Fate Fortune Human Being Inspirational Love Passionate Wonderful
What one can be, one must be!
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
It 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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Blunder Eventually Management Mistake Necessary Psycology
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human

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