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One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

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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One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
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Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.
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Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose.
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Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?
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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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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
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Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
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