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 MASLOWI 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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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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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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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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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 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.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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