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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe may define therapy as a search for value.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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