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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIn a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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 is life for? Life is for you.
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If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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