In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe may define therapy as a search for value.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of 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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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