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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.

Abraham Maslow

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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Celebrity Deserve External Fame Health Respect Self Esteem Stable Warrant
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
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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Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Human Men Race Sell Story Women
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Consideration Happiness Important People Work
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
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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Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Himself Person Project
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Artist Himself Music Paint Peace Poet Ultimate Writing

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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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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