People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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
-
-
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
When 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
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 MASLOW -
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
ABRAHAM MASLOW -
What is life for? Life is for you.
ABRAHAM MASLOW







