If you deliberately set out to be less than you are capable, you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
By : Abraham H. 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
By : Abraham H. Maslow
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
By : Abraham H. 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.
By : Abraham H. Maslow
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
By : Abraham H. 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.
By : Abraham H. Maslow
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
By : Abraham H. Maslow
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.
By : Abraham H. Maslow
A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.
By : Abraham H. Maslow
We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
By : Abraham H. Maslow
