A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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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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 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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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 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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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