Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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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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One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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