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Abraham Maslow Quote - To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

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One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choose Fear Growth Overcome Safety
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Artist Himself Music Paint Peace Poet Ultimate Writing
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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Human Men Race Sell Story Women
In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness
The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e. only from outside the person.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Belong Love Need Outside People Person Relationship Respect Safety Satisfaction
The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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Definition Pay Society Virtue
Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Comprehensive Experience Leave Philosophy Proportion Tragedy
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Choice Failure Growth Inspirational Moments Option Safety Success
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Characteristic Essence Human Human Nature Life Spiritual
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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Choice Control Ignorance Impossible Power Subject
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
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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Adjustment Cease Development Goodness Pain
What one can be, one must be!
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Be Yourself Inspirational One Liner
It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Achievement Desire Difficult Psychology Rare Want

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