It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWhat 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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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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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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.
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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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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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