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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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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 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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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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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What one can be, one must be!
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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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