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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSelf-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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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.
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