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The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.

Abraham Maslow

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Abraham Maslow
Age: 62 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 8
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Brooklyn
New York
Abraham Harold Maslow
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He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
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Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
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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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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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(Some people) 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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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.
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One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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