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What one can be, one must be!

Abraham Maslow

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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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
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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Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
What one can be, one must be!
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Consideration Happiness Important People Work
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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Characteristic Essence Human Human Nature Life Spiritual
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Human Men Race Sell Story Women
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
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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Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Encounter Hammer Man Nail
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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Failure King Live Man Potential Rival Treat
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner

What one can be, one must be!

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