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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Abraham Maslow

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
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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Belief God Hero Human Being Refuge Saint Wise
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Encounter Hammer Man Nail
What one can be, one must be!
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
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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Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing
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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Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness
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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Blunder Eventually Management Mistake Necessary Psycology
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
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
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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Capable Life Planning Unhappiness
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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Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
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
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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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain

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