Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.
Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?
Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
What one can be, one must be!
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.
The Kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you!
Let us fight for a new world, a decent world!
What do we mean by saying that existence precedes essence? We mean that man first of all exists, encounters himself, surges up in the world-and defines himself afterward.
Life is nothing without friendship.
The purpose of psychotherapy is to set people free.
Enjoy life. Have fun. Be kind. Have worth. Have friends. Be honest. Laugh. Die with dignity. Make the most of it. It’s all we’ve got.
Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
When we change, the world changes. The key to all change is in our inner transformation- a change of our hearts and minds. This is human revolution. We all have the power to change. When we realize this truth, we can bring forth that power anywhere, anytime, and in any situation.
The only time you should look down at someone, is when you are helping them up.
Forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.
We think we listen, but very rarely do we listen with real understanding, true empathy. Yet listening, of this very special kind, is one of the most potent forces for change that I know.
In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?