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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSecrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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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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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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A 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.
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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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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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