A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
ABRAHAM MASLOWTo the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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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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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
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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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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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If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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