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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.

Abraham Maslow

Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Comprehensive Experience Leave Philosophy Proportion Tragedy
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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Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Consideration Happiness Important People Work
We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
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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Appreciation Capacity Ecstasy Fortumate Gratitude Life Pleasure Wonder Wonderful
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 MASLOW

Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
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Family Friendship Lesson Life Neighbor Ordinary Sacred
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Capable Life Planning Unhappiness
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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Behavior Man Stupid Stupidity Try
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People
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
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing

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