The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together.… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
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… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
...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,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work… A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
