Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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What one can be, one must be!
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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.
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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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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 may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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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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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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