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" A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. "
More
Than
Soup
" All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. "
Human
Health
Growth
" A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. "
Write
Peace
Poet
" Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical. "
Difficult
Human Being
Human
" But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. "
Way
Language
Communication
" Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. "
Values
Self
Reality
" Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. "
Real
Passion
Objectivity
" Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself. "
Education
Itself
Activity
" Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person. "
Psychology
Good
Loyalty
" Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. "
Thought
Been
Human Nature
" If I were a Negro, I'd be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I'd rather go down with my flag flying. If you're weak or crippled, or you can't speak out or fight back in some way, then people don't hesitate to treat you badly. "
Justice
Flying
People
" 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. "
Up
Away
Land
" If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. "
Only
Hammer
You
" If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. "
Will
You
Plan
" If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna. "
More
Hopeless
Evil
" I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering. "
Someone
Me
Ground
" It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body. "
Man
Live
Food
" I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. "
Why
Out
Insane
" Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation. "
Marriage
School
Life
" 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. "
Live
King
Man
" Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot. "
You
Hell
Man
" The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. "
Present
Present Moment
Moment
" The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. "
Behavior
People
Good
" The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health. "
Negative
Positive
Science
" The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. "
Race
Men
Women
" We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves. "
Ourselves
Fear
More
" We may define therapy as a search for value. "
May
Define
Value
" What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. "
Call
Need
Must
" What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. "
Awareness
Change
Necessary
" What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in. "
Religion
People
Thought
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