self-actualization

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This story is about self-actualization of your hidden dreams that you have kept in a dark corner of your heart.

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  • Accordingly, many people think of self-actualization as a drive people have towards self-perfection and self-improvement. —  Mental Help Net Weblog and Essay Entries
  • He was originally attracted to Rogers 'work because he recognized parallels to concepts like self-actualization (or self-organizing systems) from physical sciences like physics and chemistry. —  Mental Help Net Weblog and Essay Entries
  • Elliott remarks, in which perpetual change -- the continual renewal of self-actualization -- is the key to success. —  Powell's Books: Overview
  • It recycles the television series 'message of self-actualization and the power of dreams, recycles the characters' established behavior patterns, and recycles the ruthless utopians from dozens of previous anime. —  Anime News Network
  • Along with the Golden Age's Green Lama, Thunderbolt was one of the earliest super-hero characters to give a nod to Eastern philosophy - however abstractly - and was probably the first hero powered by self-actualization. —  COMIXTALK
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