We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOWAppreciate 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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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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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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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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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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