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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWhat is life for? Life is for you.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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