Abraham Maslow Quotes
Top 70 wise famous quotes and sayings by Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Abraham Maslow on Wise Famous Quotes.
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.
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Apparently one impression we are making ... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.
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.
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
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.
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.
We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction ...
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.