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 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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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 needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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