We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
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.
A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be he must be.
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
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.
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.
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.
Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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.
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.