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 MASLOWDon’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
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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.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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