It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOWDon’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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