We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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 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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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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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 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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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