We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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.
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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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