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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne’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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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If 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.
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