We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf 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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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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 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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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