Top 36 Abraham H. Maslow Quotes
#1. In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.
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#2. What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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#3. 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.
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#5. It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
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#6. Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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#7. In a word if you tell me you have a personality problem I am not certain until I know you better whether to say "Good!" or "I'm sorry." It depends on the reasons. And these, it seems, may be good reasons, or they may be good reasons.
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#8. We 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.
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#9. 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
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#10. False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. 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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#15. In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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#16. Every age but ours has had its model, its ideal. All of these have been given up by our culture; the saint, the hero, the gentleman, the knight, the mystic. About all we have left is the well-adjusted man without problems, a very pale and doubtful substitute.
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#17. One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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#18. If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.
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#19. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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#20. 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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#21. 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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#22. Creativeness comes partly out of the unconscious, i.e., is a healthy regression, a temporary turning away from the real world.
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#23. 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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#24. The desire to know and to understand are themselves conative, i.e., have a striving character, and are as much personality needs as the "basic needs" we have already discussed.
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#25. When the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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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#29. Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of over-protection, which in turn implies a certain lack of respect for the integrity and the intrinsic nature and the future development of the individual.
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#30. 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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#31. 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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#32. I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
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#34. How good a society does human nature permit? How good a human nature does society permit?
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#35. 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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#36. 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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