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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWAll of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
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One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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