The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOWWe need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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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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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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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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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It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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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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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 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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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