If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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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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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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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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