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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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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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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One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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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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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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