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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWCreativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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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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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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