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Abraham Maslow Quote - The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
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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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
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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Comprehensive Experience Leave Philosophy Proportion Tragedy
Life 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.
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Choice Defense Fear Growth Life Process Progress Risk Safety Time
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
What is life for? Life is for you.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Healing Life One Liner
One 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.
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Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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Block Censor Communication Dishonest Need
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.
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Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Creation Love Predit Teaching Understand World
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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Birth Characteristic Creative Human
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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Family Friendship Lesson Life Neighbor Ordinary Sacred
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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Characteristic Essence Human Human Nature Life Spiritual
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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Blunder Eventually Management Mistake Necessary Psycology
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Awareness Change Himself Person
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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Belong Love Need Outside People Person Relationship Respect Safety Satisfaction
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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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
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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Artist Man Music Paint Peace Ultimate Writing
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
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 MASLOW

Core Deny Essential Immediately Person Sick Suppress
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Consideration Happiness Important People Work
What one can be, one must be!
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Evil One Liner People
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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Capable Life Planning Unhappiness
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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Choice Failure Growth Inspirational Moments Option Safety Success

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