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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWMost people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
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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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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 story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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