What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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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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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 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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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.
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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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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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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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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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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