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.
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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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 one can be, one must be!
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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 story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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.
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