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 MASLOWThe spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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What one can be, one must be!
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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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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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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