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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

Abraham Maslow

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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Family Friendship Lesson Life Neighbor Ordinary Sacred
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
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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Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
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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Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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Comprehensive Experience Leave Philosophy Proportion Tragedy
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Encounter Hammer Man Nail
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
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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Abandonment Amaze Creative Face Miracle
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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Blunder Eventually Management Mistake Necessary Psycology
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
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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Artist Himself Music Paint Peace Poet Ultimate Writing
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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Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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Achievement Desire Difficult Psychology Rare Want

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