black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Abraham Maslow

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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Awareness Change Himself Person
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Behavior Man Stupid Stupidity Try
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choice Defense Fear Growth Life Process Progress Risk Safety Time
It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Achievement Desire Difficult Psychology Rare Want
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
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 MASLOW

Belief God Hero Human Being Refuge Saint Wise
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Crave Fear Ourselves
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choice Failure Growth Inspirational Moments Option Safety Success
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Human Men Race Sell Story Women
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Evil One Liner People
We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Abandonment Amaze Creative Face Miracle
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Celebrity Deserve External Fame Health Respect Self Esteem Stable Warrant

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Abraham Maslow Quotes