The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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