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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSeeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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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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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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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.
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