One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
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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.
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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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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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Appreciate again and again, freshly and naively the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy, however stable these experiences may have become to others.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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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.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
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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 definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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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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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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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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