We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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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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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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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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The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
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We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes 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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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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