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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

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

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

From Abraham Maslow

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

From Abraham Maslow

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.

From Abraham Maslow

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

From Abraham Maslow

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

From Abraham Maslow

If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

From 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.

From Abraham Maslow

Abraham Maslow

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