It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOWI 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
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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 only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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