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

— Abraham Maslow Attributed

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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

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.

Freedom, love, community feeling, respect, philosophy, may all be waved aside as fripperies that are useless since they fail to fill the stomach.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

For our chronically and extremely hungry man, Utopia can be defined simply as a place where there is plenty of food.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

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