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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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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Humans
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You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
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We must understand love we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
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The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
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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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It is vital that people count their blessings: to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.
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...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, and family, in one's backyard.
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Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you've got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself.
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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
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Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness, for being fair and just, for doing what is worthwhile and for preferring to do it well.
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To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits... Therefore, while using language, as we must of necessity, we should be aware of its shortcomings.
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We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
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There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked out of them ...I think of the self-actualising man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away.
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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 intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.
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A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.
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