The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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