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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWBe independent of the good opinion of other people.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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What one can be, one must be!
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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