Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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 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 of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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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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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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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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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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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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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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