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"I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane."
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"Human life will never be understood unless its highest aspirations
are taken into account. Growth, self-actualization, the striving toward
health, the quest for identity and autonomy, the yearning for excellence
(and other ways of phrasing the striving "upward") must by now
be accepted beyond question as a widespread and perhaps universal human
tendency. ... And yet there are also other regressive, fearful, self-diminishing
tendencies as well, and it is very easy to forget them in our intoxication
with "personal growth," especially for inexperienced youngsters.
.... We must appreciate that many people choose the worse rather than the
better, that growth is often a painful process.... " ... Motivation
and Personality
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"Such aftereffects of esthetic experience, creative experience, love
experience, mystic experience, insight experience, and other peak-experiences
are preconsciously taken for granted and commonly expected by artists and
art educators, by creative teachers, by religious and philosophical theorists,
by loving husbands, mothers and therapists and by many others. "
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| "It is as if Freud supplied to us the sick half of psychology and
we must now fill it out with the healthy half." |
| "When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to
resemble a nail" |
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