Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?
ABRAHAM MASLOWTo the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
More Abraham Maslow Quotes
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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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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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False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment, anger and hopelessness.
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The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
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Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
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Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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What you don’t know has power over you; knowing it brings it under your control, and makes it subject to your choice. Ignorance makes real choice impossible.
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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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In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.
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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
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If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
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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.
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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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The definition of the good society is one in which virtue pays.
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