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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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What one can be, one must be!
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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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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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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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