Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIn any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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.
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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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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.
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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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What one can be, one must be!
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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