black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.

Abraham Maslow

We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Search Therapy Value
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Birth Characteristic Creative Human
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
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
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Appreciation Fresh Life Mental Health Pleasure Wellness Wonder
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Anger Hopeless Optimism
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
What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Evil One Liner People
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Definition Pay Society Virtue
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Objective Passion Passionate Real Truth
The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Belong Love Need Outside People Person Relationship Respect Safety Satisfaction
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Human Men Race Sell Story Women
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Education Forever Pupil Teacher

The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Abraham Maslow Quotes