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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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One 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.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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