Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
ABRAHAM MASLOWCreativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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 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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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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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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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