Abraham Maslow and Kurt Vonnegut made me who I am today. Kurt taught me sadness, Abraham taught me peace. I could go deep into their biographies, but I want to set off my new life by writing short pieces about wisdom from each man. Our first series will be:
Great Quotes by Maslow, explained and explored
Here is a summary of our topics:
1. ‘What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization’
2. ‘I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane’
3. ‘If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail’
4. ‘We may define therapy as a search for value’
5. ‘A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting’
6. ‘Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth’
7. ‘The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short’
8. ‘What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself’
9. ‘It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement’
10. ‘The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness’
11. ‘Be independent of the good opinion of other people’
12. ‘We fear to know the fearsome and unsavoury aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves’
13. ‘If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.’
14. ‘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.’
15. ‘A poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself’
I would talk more here, but I am excited to bite into our first topic. See you next post.
Great Quotes by Maslow, explained and explored
Here is a summary of our topics:
1. ‘What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization’
2. ‘I was awfully curious to find out why I didn’t go insane’
3. ‘If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail’
4. ‘We may define therapy as a search for value’
5. ‘A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting’
6. ‘Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth’
7. ‘The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short’
8. ‘What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself’
9. ‘It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement’
10. ‘The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness’
11. ‘Be independent of the good opinion of other people’
12. ‘We fear to know the fearsome and unsavoury aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves’
13. ‘If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.’
14. ‘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.’
15. ‘A poet must write if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself’
I would talk more here, but I am excited to bite into our first topic. See you next post.
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