The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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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 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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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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