People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOWA musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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 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 one can be, one must be!
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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