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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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 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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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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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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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Self-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.
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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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