To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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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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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
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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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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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