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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWhen 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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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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What one can be, one must be!
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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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The 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.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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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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