Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSelf-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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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