I leave you the best phrases of Abraham Maslow, founder of the humanist paradigm, one of the best known psychologists in history and, among other contributions, known for his hierarchy or pyramid of needs.
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-If you only have a hammer, you tend to see all problems as a nail.
-What a man can be, he should be. We call this need self-realization.
-Most of us could be better than we really are.
-It is not normal to know what we want. It is a strange and difficult psychological achievement.
-The ability to be in the present moment is a main component of mental health.
-What needs to be changed in a person is self-awareness.
-At each moment, we have two options: take a step forward and grow or go back to stay safe.
-Growth and improvement can come from pain and conflict.
-The question of the need for pain and grief must be faced. Are growth and completeness possible without pain, grief, grief, and problems?
-We fear our maximum possibilities. Usually it scares us to become what we envision in our best moments, in the most perfect conditions and with the greatest courage.
-When people seem to be anything other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress or deprivation of needs such as security, love and self-esteem.
-You will walk forward to growth or you will walk backward to safety.
-The fact is that people are good. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be safe in their feelings and behaviors.
-If you plan to be anything less than what you are capable of, you will probably be unhappy every day of your life.
-If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, I warn you that you will be deeply unhappy for the rest of your days.
-Self-actualized people have a deep sense of identification, sympathy and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of their family.
-A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write. What a man can be, he must be.
-Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
-The people we classify as sick are those who are not themselves, who have created all kinds of neurotic defenses.
-I have the impression that the concept of creativity and that of a healthy, self-realized and fully human person, are becoming closer to each other and perhaps they turn out to be the same.
-We must teach people to pay attention to their own tastes. Many do not.
-One can choose to go towards safety or to advance towards growth. Growth must be chosen over and over again; fear must be overcome again and again.
-Many of us, most of the time, we do not listen to each other, but we listen to the introjected voices of mom, dad, the system, the elderly, authority or tradition.
-I have learned that the novice can often see things that the expert cannot. What is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes or appearing naive.
-We could define therapy as a search for value.
-People are not bad, they are unhappy.
-You cannot choose wisely in life, unless you dare to listen to yourself, to your own self, in every moment of your life.
-All the evidence we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume that in practically all human beings, and almost all newborns, there is an active will, a drive towards health, growth and fulfillment.
-Human life can never be understood if its highest aspirations are not taken into account.
-It must be recognized that many people choose the worst instead of the best, that growth is often a painful process.
-A baby is only potentially a human being and must acquire its humanity in society and culture, in the family.
-The proof that wonderful people can and do exist is enough to give you courage, hope, strength to keep fighting, faith in ourselves and in our possibilities to grow.
-Love, security, belonging and respect for other people are almost panaceas for circumstantial disorders and even for some disorders of a benign nature.
-My personal opinion is that a perfect human being is not possible, not even conceivable, but that all human beings are much more improvable than is believed.
-The really good therapist, even if he advocates a Freudian pessimistic theory, acts as if development were possible.
-Only he who respects fear and defense can teach; only those who respect health can perform therapeutic work.
-Internal problems and external problems tend to be deeply similar and to be mutually related.
-The person free of anxiety can be bolder and more courageous: he can investigate and theorize per se.
-Life is a continuous process of choosing between safety and risk. Take the grow pick a dozen times a day.
-We must understand love, we must be able to teach it, create it, predict it, or else the world is lost in hostility and suspicion.
-False optimism sooner or later means disappointment, hatred and hopelessness.
-If I was thrown out of a plane into an ocean and told that the nearest land is thousands of miles away, I would still swim. And I would despise whoever gave up.
-In certain definable and empirical senses, man needs to live in beauty more than in ugliness, just as he needs to have food for his hungry stomach or rest for his tired stomach.
-The only rival of one is his own potentialities. The only failure is failing to live up to your own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must, therefore, be treated as a king.
-The study of motivation must be, in part, the study of the ends, desires or ultimate needs of the human being.
-The satisfaction of the need for self-esteem leads to feelings of self-confidence, worth, strength, ability and sufficiency, of being useful and necessary in the world.
-The satisfaction of one need creates another.
-The typical desire is clearly a need of the whole person.
-We would never want to compose music or create mathematical systems, or decorate our houses, or be well dressed, if our stomach was empty at all hours, or if we were continually dying of thirst.
-We should renounce, once and for all, the pretense of drawing up a detailed inventory of impulses or needs. For different reasons, such an inventory is theoretically unconscious.
-We must ensure immediately that human motivation is rarely realized in behavior, if not in relation to a situation and some people.
-As income increases, people want and actively strive for things that they would never have dreamed of a few years before.
-The most important problems of the greatest and best characters in the history of humanity must be covered and explained.
-If all the needs are not satisfied, and the organism, therefore, is dominated by the physiological needs, the remaining needs can simply be non-existent or be displaced to the bottom.
-Something like human curiosity can be easily observed in higher animals.
-Studies of mentally healthy people indicate that, as a defining characteristic, they are attracted to the mysterious, the unknown, the chaotic, the disorganized and the unexplained.
- Probably the psychopathological effects are true when basic needs are frustrated.
-We must not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages, our heroes and statesmen.
-Let people realize that every time they threaten someone, humiliate, harm unnecessarily, dominate or reject another human being, they become forces for the creation of a psychopathology.
-That people recognize that when you are kind, charitable, decent, psychologically democratic, affectionate and warm, you are being a psychotherapeutic force, even if it is a small one.
-I can feel a little guilty about the past and apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act.
-If the essence of people is denied or suppressed, they can become ill in an obvious way, sometimes in a subtle way, sometimes immediately, sometimes with the passage of time.
-It seems that there is a common goal for humanity. A goal that all people go towards. This receives different names according to each author: self-determination, integration, psychological health, individualism, autonomy.
-It seems that what you have to do is not fear mistakes, give the best of yourself, waiting to learn enough from mistakes to be able to correct them eventually.
-The sacred is in the ordinary. It is found in daily life, in neighbors, in friends, in family, in the backyard.
-I consider that looking for miracles is a sign of ignorance, of mistakenly believing that everything is miraculous.
-The key question is not "in what lies creativity? ° but" why, in the name of God, not all people are creative? Where was the human potential lost?
-An interesting question is not "why do people believe?" but "why don't people create or innovate?"
-We have to abandon the sense of wonder at creativity, stop seeing as if it were a miracle every time someone creates something.
-The luckiest are those who have the wonderful ability to appreciate again and again, in a fresh and innocent way, the basic goods of life, with amazement, pleasure and even ecstasy.
-The most stable and, therefore, the healthiest self-esteem is based on the respect deserved by others instead of external fame, celebrity or flattery.
-Seeing is better than being blind, even if it hurts.
-Not letting people go through pain and protecting them from it can become overprotective, which in turn implies a lack of respect for the integrity, intrinsic nature and development of the individual.
-Being able to listen, really, passively, without presupposing, classifying, evaluating, approving, disapproving, without fighting with what is said, without practicing the rejection response, such a way of listening is rare.
-The need for security, belonging, loving relationships and respect can only be satisfied by other people, that is, it must come from others. This means that being is highly dependent on environment.
-Creativity comes in part from the unconscious, for example, from healthy regression, from the temporary escape from reality.
-Most people experience tragedy and joy in different proportions. Any philosophy that leaves out either of these two cannot be considered understandable.
-Evidently, the most beautiful destiny, the most wonderful luck that any human being can have is to be paid to do what they love to do.
-Man is an animal that wants something constantly.
-No need can be considered isolated or discrete, each one is related to the state of satisfaction of the others.
-Human needs are organized in hierarchies of arrogance. This means that a need depends on the previous satisfaction of another more important or powerful need.
-If you tell me you have a personality problem, I can't be sure until I know you improve and I can say "okay" or "I'm very sorry.
-Knowledge and action are related, I agree with that. But I go further, I am convinced that knowledge and action are often synonymous, that they are the same from a Socratic point of view.
-If grief and pain are necessary for the growth of a person, we must learn not to protect people from these feelings as if they were always bad.
-Dispassionate objectivity is passion in itself.
-The search for the exotic, the strange, the unusual, the out of the ordinary, usually takes the form of a pilgrimage, going around the world, a "journey to the East", to another country, to another religion.
-We can no longer trust tradition, consensus, cultural habit, unanimity of belief to give us values. These traditions have disappeared.
- Orthodox science tries to free itself not only from values but also from emotions. As youngsters would say, try to be "cool."
-I must say that being in love, in a verifiable sense, creates the couple, gives them shape, acceptance, a feeling of value. All of this allows them to grow. The real question is whether human development is possible without love.
-In the peak moments, the person feels responsible, active, creative center of their activities and their perceptions. It feels like the one taking the first step.
-Expression and communication at peak moments becomes poetic, mythical, rhapsodic, as if this were the natural language that served to express such states of being.
-Does health mean being free of symptoms? I deny it.
-Human nature is not as bad as you think.
-The best product must be bought. The best person should be rewarded.
-There is anthropological evidence that indicates that the fundamental or ultimate desires of all human beings hardly differ from their everyday conscious desires. The main reason for this is that two different cultures can generate two totally different ways of satisfying a particular desire.
-Once the physiological needs are satisfied, others emerge that dominate. When physiological needs are relatively well catered for, a new set of needs then arises, which can be broadly categorized as safety needs.
-We can orient ourselves towards defense, security or fear. But, on the opposite side, there is the option of growth. Choosing growth over fear twelve times a day means moving towards self-realization twelve times a day.
-Self-realization is a continuous process. It means making all the decisions one by one about whether to lie or be honest, whether to steal or not at any given time, and it means making each of those decisions as a growth option. It is a movement toward self-realization.
-To invent or create it is necessary to possess the <> that many researchers have pointed out. But if you only have arrogance without humility, then you are paranoid. We must be aware not only of the divine possibilities in us, but also of the existential human limitations.
-Self-realization means living fully, vividly and selflessly, with total concentration and absorption. It means living without the shyness of the adolescent. At that moment, the person is totally and fully human. This is a moment of self-realization, the moment in which the self is actualized.
-The independence of the environment achieves relative stability in the face of a hard blow, deprivation, beatings, frustrations and the like. These people can maintain relative composure in the midst of circumstances that could lead other people to suicide. They are also described as "self-sufficient."