Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
ABRAHAM MASLOWLife 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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 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’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.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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