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

Abraham Maslow

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
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
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
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.
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Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
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
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
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
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
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
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
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
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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Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness

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