Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important nonevil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
~ Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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.
~ Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.
~ Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.
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There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.
~ Abraham Maslow Quotes
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When the only tool you have is a hammer, all problems begin to resemble nails.
~ Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general.
~ Abraham Maslow Quotes
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You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
~ Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
~ Abraham Maslow Quotes
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As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.
~ Abraham Maslow Quotes
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