Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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The 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.
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What one can be, one must be!
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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If 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.
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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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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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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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