black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Crave Fear Ourselves
The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Family Friendship Lesson Life Neighbor Ordinary Sacred
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Awareness Change Himself Person
One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Failure King Live Man Potential Rival Treat
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
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
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
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Definition Pay Society Virtue
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Anger Hopeless Optimism
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Evil One Liner People
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Himself Person Project
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 MASLOW

Belief God Hero Human Being Refuge Saint Wise
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Abraham Maslow Quotes