The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIn any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Self-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.
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One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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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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What one can be, one must be!
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