The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOWA musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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 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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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