People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe may define therapy as a search for value.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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What one can be, one must be!
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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.
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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 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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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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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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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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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 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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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