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.
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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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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What one can be, one must be!
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 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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