Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOWPeople are not evil; they are schlemiels.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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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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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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