I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don’t want the world as it is today but want to make another world.
Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
What one can be, one must be!
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.
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.
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.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.