Abraham Maslow

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

Abraham Maslow

Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe: the former is disturbing.

Abraham Maslow

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

Abraham Maslow

It is vital that people ‘count their blessings’: to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.

Abraham Maslow

It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

Abraham Maslow

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

Abraham Maslow

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

Abraham Maslow

Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

Abraham Maslow

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

Abraham Maslow

Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.

Abraham Maslow