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.
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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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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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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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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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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Appreciate 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.
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What one can be, one must be!
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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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