Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
ABRAHAM MASLOWA musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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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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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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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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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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