Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
ABRAHAM MASLOWThe 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.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
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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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Every person is, in part, his own project and makes himself.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
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What is life for? Life is for you.
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The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.
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Don’t worry when you are not recognized but strive to be worthy of recognition.
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People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
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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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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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Most people experience both tragedy and joy in varying proportions. Any philosophy which leaves out either cannot be considered to be comprehensive.
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What one can be, one must be!
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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.
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