It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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What one can be, one must be!
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