“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”
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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.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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.