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Abraham Maslow Quote - In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.

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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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Appearance Decent Human Love Pain Security Self Esteem Stress
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.
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Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Consideration Happiness Important People Work
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
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.
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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
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

Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
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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Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
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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Beautiful Fate Fortune Human Being Inspirational Love Passionate Wonderful
The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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Belong Love Need Outside People Person Relationship Respect Safety Satisfaction
What one can be, one must be!
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human

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