The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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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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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 most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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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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