What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
ABRAHAM MASLOWAll of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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