In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOWDon’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
-
-
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOW