Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM MASLOWPeople are not evil; they are schlemiels.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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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 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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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