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.
ABRAHAM MASLOWIt isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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What one can be, one must be!
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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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A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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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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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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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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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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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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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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