Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSecrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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What one can be, one must be!
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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
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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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We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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