A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe 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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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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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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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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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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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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