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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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