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 MASLOWThe story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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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’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
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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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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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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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