Abraham Maslow Quotes and Sayings
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“I can feel guilty about the past, Apprehensive about the future,but only in the present can I act.The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
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“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
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“All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.”
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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.”
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“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
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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