A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOWCreativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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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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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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