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Own Quotes by Abraham Maslow
- One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
- 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…
- One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
- The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He…
- We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
- 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…
- The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may…
- 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,…
- When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
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