Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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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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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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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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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