Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
ABRAHAM MASLOWPerhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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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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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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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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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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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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Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
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We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.
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Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
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All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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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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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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