All Abraham Maslow Quotes
- I may say that (Being) love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. it gives him a self-image, it gives him self-acceptance, a… Acceptance
- Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in… Able
- If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole… Affection
- If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes out.… Animal
- In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become. Become Truly
- 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… Any
- My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and… Actualizing
- We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves Becoming
- Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness? Happiness
- What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion. Call
- Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called… Becomes
- What is life for? Life is for you. Healing
- One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. Failing
- The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human. Characteristic
- It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. Actual
- The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He… Active
- The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. Consider
- When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth. Constraints
- The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being. Constructed
- Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection. Achievable