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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.

Abraham Maslow

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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Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
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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Appreciation Fresh Life Mental Health Pleasure Wellness Wonder
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
What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
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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Comprehensive Experience Leave Philosophy Proportion Tragedy
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
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
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
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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Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
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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Capable Life Planning Unhappiness
We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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Belief God Hero Human Being Refuge Saint Wise
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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
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
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher

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