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 MASLOWWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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 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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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
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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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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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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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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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