The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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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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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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