Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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