Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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.
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If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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