It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOWA musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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 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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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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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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If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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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 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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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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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