Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
ABRAHAM MASLOWPerhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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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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