It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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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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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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