The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSeeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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What one can be, one must be!
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Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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