The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
ABRAHAM MASLOWCreativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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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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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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 you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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