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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.

Abraham Maslow

We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
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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Choice Defense Fear Growth Life Process Progress Risk Safety Time
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
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
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
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
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
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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Achievement Desire Difficult Psychology Rare Want
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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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
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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Appearance Decent Human Love Pain Security Self Esteem Stress

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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