Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOWDon’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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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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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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