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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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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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What one can be, one must be!
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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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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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