We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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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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