Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
ABRAHAM MASLOWCreativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
ABRAHAM MASLOWFalse optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWhat is life for? Life is for you.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIn any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOWDispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt 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 MASLOWPeople are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf 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 MASLOWA 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOW