You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of… — 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
If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at… — 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
