What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOWCreativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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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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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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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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 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.
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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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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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.
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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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