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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWBe independent of the good opinion of other people.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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What one can be, one must be!
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If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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