The 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWhen 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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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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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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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.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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