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 MASLOWIn a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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What one can be, one must be!
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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