Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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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What one can be, one must be!
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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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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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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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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