We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOWAppreciate 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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.
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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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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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