We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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What one can be, one must be!
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Self-actualized people…live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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