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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

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
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
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 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
What one can be, one must be!
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
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
It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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Achievement Desire Difficult Psychology Rare Want
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
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
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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Appearance Decent Human Love Pain Security Self Esteem Stress
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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Choice Defense Fear Growth Life Process Progress Risk Safety Time

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