“The question of desirable grief and pain or the necessity for it must also be faced. [Are] growth and self-fulfillment possible at all without pain and grief and sorrow and turmoil? If grief and pain are sometimes necessary for growth… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“Every age but ours has had its model, its ideal. All of these have been given up by our culture; the saint, the hero,… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“Orthodox science today attempts to be free not only of values but also of emotions. As youngsters would say, it tries to be "cool".” — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“To sum it up, from this point of view, the two religions of mankind tend to be the peakers and the non-peakers, that is… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“The needs for safety, belonging, love relations and for respect can be satisfied only by other people, i.e., only from outside the person. This… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our most compassionate, our great improvers and reformers of society, our most… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“Descriptively, we can see in each person his own (weak) tendencies to grow toward self-actualization; and also descriptively, we can see his various (weak)… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“The question of desirable grief and pain or the necessity for it must also be faced. [Are] growth and self-fulfillment possible at all without… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“The search for the exotic, the strange, the unusual, the uncommon has often taken the form of pilgrimages, of turning away from the world,… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“Shortsighted people make [experientialism and social reform] opposites, mutually exclusive. [...] The empirical fact is that self-actualizing people, our best experiencers, are also our… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“Neither are the humanistic scholars and artists of any great help these days. They used to be, and were supposed to be, as a… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
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