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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

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Conflict Growth Improvement Pain
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Celebrity Deserve External Fame Health Respect Self Esteem Stable Warrant
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Characteristic Essence Human Human Nature Life Spiritual
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Education Forever Pupil Teacher
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
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Behavior Man Stupid Stupidity Try
Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Recognization Worry Worth
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Education Goals Life Precious Teaching
Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Himself Person Project
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Human Men Race Sell Story Women
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Appreciation Capacity Ecstasy Fortumate Gratitude Life Pleasure Wonder Wonderful
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Give Up Inspirational Mile Ocean Plane
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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

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.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Appearance Decent Human Love Pain Security Self Esteem Stress
We may define therapy as a search for value.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Search Therapy Value
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Evil One Liner People
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
ABRAHAM MASLOW

Consideration Happiness Important People Work

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

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