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• What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

  Abraham Maslow

  Average, Psychology, Normal

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.

  Abraham Maslow

  Mean, People, Common Sense

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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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Voice, Meaning Of Life, Done

  "Meaning of Life : According to the Great and the Good". Book by Richard T. Kinnier, 2007.

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• What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

  Abraham Maslow

  Men, Self, Ions

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• Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."

  Abraham Maslow

  Motivation, Reflection, Self

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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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Music, Peace

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Edward Hoffman (1996). “Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow”, Sage Publications, Inc

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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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Meaningful, Responsibility, Needs

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• It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

  Abraham Maslow

  Loss, Blessing, People

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Edward Hoffman (1996). “Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow”, Sage Publications, Inc

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• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  Abraham Maslow

  May, Peak Experiences, Therapy

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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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Philosophy, Needs, Sunlight

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.46, John Wiley & Sons

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• We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.

  Abraham Maslow

  Perfect, Weakness, Glimpse

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• Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Gratitude, Motivation, Blessing

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• The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

  Abraham Maslow

  Humans, Human Beings

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

  Abraham Maslow

  Happiness, Mean, Doe

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• One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

  Abraham Maslow

  Kings, Failure, Men

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• It 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-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.

  Abraham Maslow

  Creativity, Psychological Health, Self

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.

  Abraham Maslow

  Food, Creativity, Creative

  Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.22, John Wiley & Sons

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• The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

  Abraham Maslow

  Self Esteem, Healthy, Fame

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

  Abraham Maslow

  Hands, People, Creative

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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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Moving, Self, Choices

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• Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

  Abraham Maslow

  Science, Human Nature, Humans

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

  Abraham Maslow

  Philosophy, Yield, Psychology

  Carl Ransom Rogers, Abraham Harold Maslow (1984). “American politics and humanistic psychology”, Saybrook Pub

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• Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing

  Abraham Maslow

  Honesty, Generosity, Common Sense

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• We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fear, Peak Experiences, Aspect

  Attributed to Abraham Maslow by Toni Galardi in The LifeQuake Phenomenon: How to Thrive (Not Just Survive) in Times of Personal and Global Upheaval, 2009.

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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.

  Abraham Maslow

  Beautiful, Running, Long

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