If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
ABRAHAM MASLOW
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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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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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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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