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.
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSeeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIf you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWhat 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWA musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOWLife 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWOne 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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
ABRAHAM MASLOWSecrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
ABRAHAM MASLOWCreativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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