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 MASLOWTo the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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 must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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What one can be, one must be!
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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