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 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 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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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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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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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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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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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We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
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