Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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