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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Abraham Maslow

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Education Forever Pupil Teacher
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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Celebrity Deserve External Fame Health Respect Self Esteem Stable Warrant
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 MASLOW

Family Friendship Lesson Life Neighbor Ordinary Sacred
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Crave Fear Ourselves
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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Characteristic Essence Human Human Nature Life Spiritual
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
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
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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Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choice Failure Growth Inspirational Moments Option Safety Success
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
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
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
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Evil One Liner People
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

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