The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIn a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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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 of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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What one can be, one must be!
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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