The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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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 story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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What is life for? Life is for you.
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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.
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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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