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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWPerhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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What one can be, one must be!
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The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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