Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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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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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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 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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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