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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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.
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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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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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If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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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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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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