In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with 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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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What one can be, one must be!
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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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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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