Abraham Maslow Quotes

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• Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
• Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
• Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
• There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators,…
• Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
• What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times…
• The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as…
• One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.
• Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
• As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person…
• One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
• [Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts…
• Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people…
• We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
• Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get…
• Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
• 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 curious to find…
• 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…
• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a…
• When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of…

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