We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWhen 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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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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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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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