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 MASLOWThe 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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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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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
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