The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOWFalse optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSelf-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 MASLOWPeople are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
ABRAHAM MASLOWAll of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
ABRAHAM MASLOWMost people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
ABRAHAM MASLOWA stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
ABRAHAM MASLOWCreativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
ABRAHAM MASLOW