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.
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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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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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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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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