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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.

Abraham Maslow

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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Belief God Hero Human Being Refuge Saint Wise
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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Behavior Man Stupid Stupidity Try
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
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 story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Human Men Race Sell Story Women
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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Failure King Live Man Potential Rival Treat
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
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
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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
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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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain

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