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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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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 life for? Life is for you.
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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