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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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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What one can be, one must be!
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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