False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne’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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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.
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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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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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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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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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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.
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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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.
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