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The film explores the dilemma of choosing between self-fulfillment and familial obligations, showing how Joyce learns to embrace her mother’s modern family business and reflecting on the challenges of a globalized generation.—Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 8 Apr. 2025 Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: Maslow's model highlights the importance of psychological and self-fulfillment needs.—Raquel Gomes, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2025 These cultures tend to view divorce as a justifiable and often necessary step toward self-fulfillment.—Mark Travers, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2025 This is Mascaro’s most humane film to date, which isn’t to say that August Winds and Neon Bull weren’t also grounded in the individual’s struggle for self-fulfillment outside the strictures of bourgeois circumscribed society.—Jay D. Weissberg, Deadline, 18 Feb. 2025 Thus, Mill’s central political concern was not how to create order out of chaos but how to ensure that the beneficiaries of order could achieve self-fulfillment.—John Micklethwait, Foreign Affairs, 29 May 2014 Deserving Self-Fulfillment The final justification, cited by 13 participants, was that their affairs were a form of deserving self-fulfillment.—Mark Travers, Forbes, 13 Oct. 2024 What lies do people tell themselves that inhibit their self-fulfillment?—Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 26 Sep. 2024 Part of her journey toward self-fulfillment, these visits allow her brief liberation from her husband and family, leading her to begin a series of illicit affairs.—EW.com, 6 Mar. 2024
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