We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. Abraham Maslow More Quotes by Abraham Maslow More Quotes From Abraham Maslow The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg. Abraham Maslow humorous god silly The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important. Abraham Maslow important happiness people The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior. Abraham Maslow giving reality people Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication. Abraham Maslow communication language way You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities. Abraham Maslow unhappy class firsts One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious. Abraham Maslow life-is-precious goal should One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life. Abraham Maslow motivation self life 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 What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont. Abraham Maslow doe happiness mean If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl Abraham Maslow safety reality needs 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 music inspirational peace We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity. Abraham Maslow maturity safety choices What is life for? Life is for you. Abraham Maslow what-is-life healing life-is I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities. Abraham Maslow taken men thinking It 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. Abraham Maslow motivation hope fear Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself. Abraham Maslow projects persons When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth. Abraham Maslow roaring goal ordinary It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. Abraham Maslow achievement want desire 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. Abraham Maslow be-true-to-yourself guilt may A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is. Abraham Maslow stupid trying men
