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 MASLOWAppreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
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Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
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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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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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A 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.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of 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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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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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