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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.

Abraham Maslow

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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Choice Failure Growth Inspirational Moments Option Safety Success
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
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
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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Abandonment Amaze Creative Face Miracle
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
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
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
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
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
What one can be, one must be!
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness
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
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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

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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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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