What is life for? Life is for you.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne’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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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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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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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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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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