What one can be, one must be!
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne 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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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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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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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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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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