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Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

Abraham Maslow

One’s only rival is one’s own potentialities. One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
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Failure King Live Man Potential Rival Treat
We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Search Therapy Value
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Education Forever Pupil Teacher
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.
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Blunder Eventually Management Mistake Necessary Psycology
Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.
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Choice Defense Fear Growth Life Process Progress Risk Safety Time
What is life for? Life is for you.
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Healing Life One Liner
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Consideration Happiness Important People Work
The most fortunate are those who have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder and even ecstasy.
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Appreciation Capacity Ecstasy Fortumate Gratitude Life Pleasure Wonder Wonderful
If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.
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Capable Capacity Delinerate Evade Possible Unhappiness
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.
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Appearance Decent Human Love Pain Security Self Esteem Stress
I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
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Act Apprehensive Component Feeling Future Guilty Mental Moments Presence Wellness
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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Anger Hopeless Optimism
Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Blind Deep Hurt See
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Crave Fear Ourselves
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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Goodness Independence Opinion People
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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Encounter Hammer Man Nail

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