black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Blind Deep Hurt See
Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Appreciation Fresh Life Mental Health Pleasure Wellness Wonder
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
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
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Recognization Worry Worth
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Characteristic Essence Human Human Nature Life Spiritual
What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Search Therapy Value
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Beautiful Fate Fortune Human Being Inspirational Love Passionate Wonderful
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
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Encounter Hammer Man Nail
What is life for? Life is for you.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Healing Life One Liner
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Education Forever Pupil Teacher

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Abraham Maslow Quotes