Abraham MaslowThe only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. ✨ Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). The Maslow Business Rea… ▶362HumanityReadingReflection
Abraham MaslowMan has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.374HopeLifeTime
Abraham MaslowSince 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 out why I didn't g… ▶342HumanityReading
Abraham MaslowThe key question isn't What fosters creativity? But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good qu… ▶365HumanityReadingThought
Abraham MaslowWe are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.376Reading
Abraham MaslowOne's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.343Time
Abraham MaslowFalse optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.344Hope
Abraham MaslowIt looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-re… ▶355Humanity
Abraham MaslowWe need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that … ▶322HumanityPolitics
Abraham MaslowPeople with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love and the need to love in order… ▶355HumanityLove
Abraham Maslow...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.378Life
Abraham MaslowQuitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit323Politics
Abraham MaslowIt seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.334Death
Abraham MaslowWhat shall we think of a well-adjusted slave? ✨ Abraham H. Maslow (2013). Toward a Psychology of Being, p.19, Simon and Schuster312Thought
Abraham MaslowReligion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.357LifePoliticsThought
Abraham MaslowI was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane. ✨ Attributed to Abraham Maslow in New Pathways in Psychology: Maslow and the Post-Freudian Revolution by Colin Wils… ▶302Reflection
Abraham MaslowLove, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances. ✨ Abraha… ▶313HumanityLove
Abraham MaslowWe must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.3710Humanity
Abraham MaslowWe fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. ✨ Abraham Harold Maslow, Deborah Collins Stephens, … ▶3710Time
Abraham Maslow[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoanalysts as your colleagues, co… ▶336ReadingThought
Abraham MaslowOne can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.325Love
Abraham MaslowGetting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. ✨ Abraham H. Maslow (1970). Motivation and Personality347Humanity
Abraham MaslowThe person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a … ▶292LifeTime
Abraham MaslowWhat is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. ✨ Life In the Open Sea. Book by William M. Stephens (p. 21), 1972.281LifeReading
Abraham MaslowThe 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 impul… ▶358LifePhilosophyPolitics
Abraham MaslowWe do what we are and we are what we do.292Truth
Abraham MaslowA first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. ✨ Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). The Maslow Business Reader, p.22, John Wiley & Sons337ReadingSadness
Abraham MaslowThe story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. ✨ As quoted in Road Signs for Success y Jim Whitt, (p. 61), 1993.348Humanity
Abraham MaslowSecrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs. ✨ Motivation and Personality. Book by Abraham Maslow (p. 23), 1954.3610ReadingTruth
Abraham MaslowIn order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.326Hope
