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 MASLOWThe needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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What one can be, one must be!
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes 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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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