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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

Abraham Maslow

Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Appreciation Fresh Life Mental Health Pleasure Wellness Wonder
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
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People
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
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
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
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
The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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Appreciation Capacity Ecstasy Fortumate Gratitude Life Pleasure Wonder Wonderful
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
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
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
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
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
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
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person

The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.

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