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.
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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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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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Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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