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We do what we are and we are what we do.

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
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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
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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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Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.
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The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.
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The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
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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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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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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 I'd despise the one who gave up.
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I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
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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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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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The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
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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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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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(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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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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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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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. My wife ferociously warned me against experimenting on her babies.
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In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.
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