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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWDispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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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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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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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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