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Abraham Maslow

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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Appreciation Fresh Life Mental Health Pleasure Wellness Wonder
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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Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
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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Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Consideration Happiness Important People Work
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Encounter Hammer Man Nail
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
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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Belong Love Need Outside People Person Relationship Respect Safety Satisfaction
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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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
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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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
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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Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
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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Abandonment Amaze Creative Face Miracle
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Recognization Worry Worth

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