#actual

To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others. ↗

— Albert Camus

#self-centeredness #selfishness #happy

It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#self-actualization #self-determination #determination

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope. ↗

— Jane Austen

#self-actualization #names

Don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. ↗

— Janis Joplin

#self-actualization #self-awareness #self-reliance #awareness

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#fight #identification #self-realization #uncertainly #self-realization

I had to get out of America to get a professional life going where I could actually make a living. ↗

— Harold Budd

#america #could #get #going #had

You get so tired of having your work die. I just wanted to make something that people would actually use. ↗

— Bram Cohen

#die #get #having #i #just

I did my first movie, 'The Mambo Kings,' in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#america #did #directions #director #first

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately happy. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#motivation #psychology #self-actualization #motivational

I loved planning 'The Tyra Show' more than actually having to do it. I loved coming up with show ideas, honing each program and crafting it. I'm more excited being in a meeting than being on TV. ↗

— Tyra Banks

#being #coming #crafting #each #excited