If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
Interpretation
Striving to reach your full potential is crucial for achieving happiness.
This quote by Abraham Maslow emphasizes the importance of self-actualization and personal fulfillment. It suggests that if individuals do not pursue their true capabilities and aspirations, they may experience a sense of dissatisfaction and unhappiness throughout their lives. By recognizing and striving towards our potential, we can enhance our overall happiness and satisfaction.
In practice
Motivational speeches to encourage self-improvement at workshops or seminars.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since.
I wake up saying, I'm still alive; a miracle. And so I keep on pushing.
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future, β a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can save me. No one can live my life for me. It is mine for better or for worse. If I am wise, I shall begin to-day by the simplest and most natural of all processes to build my own truer and better world from within.
Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes. Keep hope alive.
So the desire you have, that itch that you have to be whatever it is you want to be ... that itch, that desire for good is Godβs proof to you sent already to indicate that itβs yours. You already have it. Claim it.
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