False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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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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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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 definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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 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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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