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 MASLOWThe only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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What one can be, one must be!
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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 is life for? Life is for you.
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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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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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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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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.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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