One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen, again and again, fear must be overcome again and again.

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"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

Personal Growth

"If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."

- Abraham Maslow

Motivation

"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life."

- Abraham Maslow

Motivation

"Almost all creativity involves purposeful play."

- Abraham Maslow

Creativity

"The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation."

- Abraham Maslow

Self-esteem

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"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."

- Beauty and the Beast

Courage

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."

- Mark Twain

Courage

"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."

- Tracee Ellis Ross

Courage

"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."

- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Courage

"Courage, dear heart."

- C.S. Lewis

Courage