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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Abraham Maslow

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
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
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
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
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
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
What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
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
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
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
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
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value

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