We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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.
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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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