If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSecrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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