black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Recognization Worry Worth
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Encounter Hammer Man Nail
It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Achievement Desire Difficult Psychology Rare Want
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

Appreciation Fresh Life Mental Health Pleasure Wellness Wonder
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Capable Life Planning Unhappiness
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Awareness Change Himself Person
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

Choice Defense Fear Growth Life Process Progress Risk Safety Time
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Beautiful Fate Fortune Human Being Inspirational Love Passionate Wonderful
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Evil One Liner People
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choice Failure Growth Inspirational Moments Option Safety Success
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Definition Pay Society Virtue
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Abraham Maslow Quotes