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One Quotes by Abraham Maslow
- Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
- One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
- One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
- We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
- Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
- One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can…
- If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And…
- The sacred is in the ordinary...it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's own backyard...travel may…
- One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and…
- What one can be, one must be!
- Let people realize clearly that every time they threaten someone or humiliate or unnecessarily hurt or dominate or reject another human being, they become forces…
- It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to…
- ...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, friends,…
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