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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Abraham Maslow

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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Celebrity Deserve External Fame Health Respect Self Esteem Stable Warrant
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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Belief God Hero Human Being Refuge Saint Wise
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Blunder Eventually Management Mistake Necessary Psycology
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 MASLOW

Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Human Men Race Sell Story Women
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Artist Himself Music Paint Peace Poet Ultimate Writing
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Birth Characteristic Creative Human
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Consideration Happiness Important People Work

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