A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
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