The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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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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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.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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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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