False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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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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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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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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 one can be, one must be!
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