It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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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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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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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 any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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