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The concept of the well-adjusted personality or of good adjustment sets a low ceiling upon the possibility for advancement and for growth. The cow, the slave, the robot may all be well adjusted.

— Abraham Maslow Motivation and Personality (1954)

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One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.

Freedom, love, community feeling, respect, philosophy, may all be waved aside as fripperies that are useless since they fail to fill the stomach.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

For our chronically and extremely hungry man, Utopia can be defined simply as a place where there is plenty of food.

Motivation and Personality (1954)

This tendency might be phrased as the desire to become more and more what one is, to become everything that one is capable of becoming.

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