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 MASLOWIt isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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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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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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