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

Abraham Maslow

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
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
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
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
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
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
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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Belong Love Need Outside People Person Relationship Respect Safety Satisfaction
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human

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