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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

Abraham Maslow

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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Artist Himself Music Paint Peace Poet Ultimate Writing
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
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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Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People
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 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
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
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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Appearance Decent Human Love Pain Security Self Esteem Stress
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
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 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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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

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