The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
ABRAHAM MASLOWA musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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