“The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.”
“If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.”
“What we call ‘normal’ in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don’t even notice it ordinarily.”
“The human being seems to have two diversely differentiated types of trends, or a dual motivation.”
“When we can’t stand it any longer, we discover that the thing we have been waiting for, and must do, is to throw ourselves more completely into the arms of existence.”
“What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.”
“If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.”
“What a man can be, he must be.”
“The ability to be self-critical is an important component of psychological health.”
“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.”
“All basic or innate capacities are biologically grounded and hence are biological or species properties.”
“What counts is not what facts you know, but how well you can find out.”
“The child is father to the man.”
“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
“It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”
“The ability to be spontaneous is an important component of psychological health.”
“The creative person seems to have two personalities, one of which is childlike.”
“Be independent of the good opinion of other people.”
“The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.”
“Self-actualization is not a thing to be attained, it is a way of life.”
“The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.”
“Discontent is the yeast that raises the dough.”
“The positive effect on the self-image of our therapy is remarkable.”
“The need for creative expression is an important component of psychological health.”
“The existence of value absolutes is denied; at most, it is said, we have a human inclination to develop preferences.”
“We may define therapy as a search for value.”
“The ability to be alone is an important component of psychological health.”
“If you only listen to your needs, you will not grow.”
“We are dealing here with the best developed, the most efficiently functioning individuals.”
“What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.”
“To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.”
“The most stable, most balanced people are those who are most interested in what they see in themselves, not in what they think they ought to be.”
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.”
“Self-actualization is not a process of learning or perfecting skills.”
“Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.”
“The fact is that people are good. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.”
“If you only have a religion, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
Abraham Maslow quotes :
“In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.”
“Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.”
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”
“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.”
“If you love the truth, you’ll trust it; if you trust it, you’ll want to live it.”
“What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.”
“We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.”
“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.”
“Almost all creativity involves purposeful play.”
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.”
“The fact that we are not at this moment emphasizing ‘self-actualizing’ concerns is due, I think, to an overemphasis on pathology.”
“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”
“To be normal is the ideal aim of the unsuccessful.”
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“A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.”
“Human life will never be understood unless its highest aspirations are taken into account. Growth, self-actualization, the striving toward health, the quest for identity and autonomy, the yearning for excellence (and other ways of phrasing the striving ‘upward’) must by now be accepted beyond question as a widespread and perhaps universal human tendency.”
“Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.”
“The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wishes for affection and security, for belonging, for respect and self-respect.”
“When it is a question of the child’s formation, the views of the parents about him are never neutral.”
“What is life for? It is for you.”
“The fully developed person…works because it’s natural, because it’s right and enjoyable and because it’s necessary.”
“The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.”
“Love is often the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
“A person who makes full use and exploitation of his talents, capacities, potentialities, etc., is a self-actualizing person.”
“The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.”
“The key question isn’t ‘What fosters creativity?’ But it is why in God’s name isn’t everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? I think therefore a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?”
“Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general.”
“The sacred is in the ordinary, it is to be found in one’s daily life, in one’s neighbors, friends, and family, in one’s backyard.”
“Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth).”
“To be neurotic is to be in a quandary.”