To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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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.
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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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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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