We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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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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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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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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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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