The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
ABRAHAM MASLOWA stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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What one can be, one must be!
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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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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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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