To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSelf-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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What one can be, one must be!
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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