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.
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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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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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