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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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.
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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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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 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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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