What is life for? Life is for you.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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What one can be, one must be!
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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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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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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