The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
Interpretation
People respond positively to love and security, leading to better behavior and feelings.
Abraham Maslow emphasizes the inherent goodness of people, suggesting that when individuals are provided with love and a sense of security, their natural inclination is to reciprocate those feelings. This quote highlights the importance of nurturing environments in fostering positive behavior and emotional stability.
In practice
This quote could be used during a speech about the importance of community support.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
There is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. Such a person would be in the lunatic asylum.
The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.
People just hate the idea of losing. Any loss, even a small one, is just so terrible to contemplate that they compensate by buying insurance, including totally absurd policies like air travel.
While people argue with one another about the specifics of Freud's work and blame him for the prejudices of his time, they overlook the fundamental truth of his writing, his grand humility: that we frequently do not know our own motivations in life and are prisoners to what we cannot understand. We can recognize only a small fragment of our own, and an even smaller fragment of anyone else's, impetus.
Our lives are determined less by our childhood than by the traumatic way we have learned to remember our childhoods.
Rather than giving people an inflated view of themselves, we need to give them concrete reasons to feel good about themselves.
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