We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
ABRAHAM MASLOWEvery person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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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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What one can be, one must be!
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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