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Abraham Maslow

Abraham Harold Maslow (April 1, 1908 - June 8, 1970) was an American psychologist. He is noted for his conceptualization of a "hierarchy of human needs", and is considered[who?] the father of humanistic psychology

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If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

– Abraham Maslow

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If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

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

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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. What one can be, one must be.

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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

– Abraham Maslow

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Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

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Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of over-protection, which in turn implies a certain lack of respect for the integrity and the intrinsic nature and the future development of the individual.

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

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Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering

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The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists -that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard, and that travel may be a flight from confronting the sacred- this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

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To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

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

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translate in persian : اگر آگاهانه طرحی درافکنده اید (انتخاب کرده اید) که از آنچه در توان شماست کمتر باشد ، به شما هشدار می دهم که تا آخر عمرتان ناشادمان خواهید بود

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

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

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

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Syed Wasif Raza
Maslow knew, What a Man really wants from his inside, Only that Man is satisfied with himself and with his life who seeks his innate drive , finds truth from his inside , search answer of his vague and confused questions. more »
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