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 MASLOWIt isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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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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What one can be, one must be!
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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