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Abraham Maslow, I present to you Augustus Waters, whose existential curiosity dwarfed that of his well-fed, well-loved, healthy brethren. — John Green

A pedestrian hit me and went under my car. — Abraham Maslow

Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture. — Abraham Maslow

A van backed through my windscreen into my wife's face. — Abraham Maslow

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. — Abraham H. Maslow

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil. — Abraham Maslow

The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost. — Abraham Maslow

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

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection. — Abraham Maslow

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation. — Abraham Maslow

Man is a perpetually wanting animal. — Abraham Maslow

The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism. — Abraham Maslow

Apparently one impression we are making ... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment. — Abraham Maslow

Even if you have just half an hour, you can get a good workout. So I try to make it count no matter where I am. — James Maslow

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious. — Abraham Maslow

Looking down from the heights of Maslow's pyramid, it seems inconceivable to us that someone could actually prefer bread to freedom. — Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

What is life for? Life is for you. — Abraham Maslow

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again. — Abraham H. Maslow

Everything for you stems from a physical need. Most of you think with either your belly or what's below it — Soroosh Shahrivar

Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts. — Abraham H. Maslow

All of my fans are beautiful. Some don't know it, & that sucks 'cause every girl deserves to know they are beautiful. — James Maslow

Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive. — Abraham H. Maslow

Maslow did not make two different pyramids, one for men and one for women. He did not differentiate in identifying what men want and what women want. — Shahla Khan

Creativeness comes partly out of the unconscious, i.e., is a healthy regression, a temporary turning away from the real world. — Abraham H. Maslow

No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself. — Abraham Maslow

When the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail. — Abraham H. Maslow

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

Maslow said sex is the primary need. Does that mean pornstars spend more money in books than anyone else? — Daniel Marques

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting. — Abraham Maslow

The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening. — Abraham Maslow

Self-actualizing people must be what they can be. — Abraham Maslow

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases? — Abraham H. Maslow

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

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment. — Abraham Maslow

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs. — Abraham Maslow

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. — Abraham Maslow

What one can be, one must be! — Abraham H. Maslow

Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry. — James Maslow

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail. — Abraham Maslow

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction ... — Abraham Maslow

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit? — Abraham Maslow

We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general. — Abraham Maslow

Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself. — Abraham Maslow

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves — Abraham Maslow

People are not evil; they are schlemiels. — Abraham Maslow

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. — Abraham Maslow

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything. — Abraham Maslow

I enjoy running, especially in a new city, so when I'm on tour that's always a good option. — James Maslow

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. — Abraham Maslow

We are simultaneously gods and worms." - Abraham Maslow — Timothy Ferriss

Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness? — Abraham Maslow

We do what we are and we are what we do ... — Abraham Maslow

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be. — Abraham Maslow

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

You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety. — Abraham Maslow

I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth. — James Maslow

In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety. — Abraham H. Maslow

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing. — Abraham Maslow

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail. — Abraham H. Maslow

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

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement. — Abraham H. Maslow

Buyerarchy of Needs (with apologies to Maslow):

use what you have
borrow
swap
thrift
make
buy — Sarah Lazarovic

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself. — Abraham H. Maslow

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. — Abraham H. Maslow

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict. — Abraham H. Maslow

Need for immortality should be added on top of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. — Toba Beta

In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become. — Abraham Maslow

I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead. — Abraham Maslow

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth. — Abraham Maslow

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth. — Abraham Maslow

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont. — Abraham Maslow

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. — Abraham H. Maslow

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us! — Abraham Maslow

Both singing and acting are so rewarding that I couldn't pick between the two. — James Maslow

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

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering. — Abraham Maslow

If the only tool you have is a hammer, all your problems begin to look like nails. - Abraham Maslow — Laurell K. Hamilton

Look, every guy is nervous when they talk to girls, but I find that little bit of nervousness to be kind of fun. — James Maslow

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave? — Abraham Maslow

What should dictate one's life? Money? Fame? No. Friends. Love. Your life's story is formed by those around you. Choose well and share. — James Maslow

Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred. — Abraham Maslow

An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished. — Abraham Maslow

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for. — Abraham Maslow

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical. — Abraham Maslow

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. — Abraham Maslow

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. — Abraham Maslow

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. — Abraham Maslow

To think critically, it is first maturing and distancing a bit from self, no matter what level one lives on Maslow's hierarchy of needs. — Pearl Zhu

Be independent of the good opinion of other people. — Abraham H. Maslow

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

We may define therapy as a search for value. — Abraham Maslow

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb. — Abraham Maslow

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail. — Abraham Maslow

I like people in general, which is why it's fun for me to interact with my fans. — James Maslow

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be — Abraham H. Maslow

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. — Abraham Maslow

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. — Abraham Maslow

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. — Abraham Maslow

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear. — Abraham Maslow

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness. — Abraham H. Maslow