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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWMost people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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What one can be, one must be!
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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It 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.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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