One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSeeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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 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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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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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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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.
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