"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."
"The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected or unfamiliar dangers will ever appear."
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Source: Abraham H. Maslow, Deborah C. Stephens (2000). “The Maslow Business Reader”, p.260, John Wiley & Sons
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