When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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