In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
ABRAHAM MASLOWFalse optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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What one can be, one must be!
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