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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Abraham Maslow

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
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
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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Behavior Man Stupid Stupidity Try
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
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
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
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
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People
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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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
If 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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Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Consideration Happiness Important People Work
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth

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