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Abraham Maslow

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Abraham Maslow
Age: 62 †
Born: 1908
Born: April 1
Died: 1970
Died: June 8
Psychologist
Sociologist
University Teacher
Brooklyn
New York
Abraham Harold Maslow
Maslow
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Therapy
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Value
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To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.
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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 before something great.
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We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
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The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.
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The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.
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I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.
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An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.
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Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
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The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within — and make the point: This can be done.
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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 passionately loves to do.
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The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.
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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 truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.
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What one can be, one must be!
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If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.
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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.
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(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
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Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
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The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
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