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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.

Abraham Maslow

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
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
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
We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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Abandonment Amaze Creative Face Miracle
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
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
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Artist Himself Music Paint Peace Poet Ultimate Writing
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 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
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
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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Behavior Man Stupid Stupidity Try

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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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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