black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Abraham Maslow

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Anger Hopeless Optimism
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Beautiful Fate Fortune Human Being Inspirational Love Passionate Wonderful
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choice Failure Growth Inspirational Moments Option Safety Success
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Failure King Live Man Potential Rival Treat
The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Family Friendship Lesson Life Neighbor Ordinary Sacred
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Blind Deep Hurt See
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Crave Fear Ourselves
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choice Defense Fear Growth Life Process Progress Risk Safety Time
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Celebrity Deserve External Fame Health Respect Self Esteem Stable Warrant
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Appearance Decent Human Love Pain Security Self Esteem Stress
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Capable Life Planning Unhappiness
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 MASLOW

Abstract Belief Concept Confusion Expectation Live Mass Nature People World
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Characteristic Essence Human Human Nature Life Spiritual
We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Search Therapy Value

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Abraham Maslow Quotes