Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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.
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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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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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 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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