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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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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If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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What one can be, one must be!
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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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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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
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