The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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What one can be, one must be!
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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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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