People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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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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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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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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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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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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