To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view.… — Amy Dickinson Copy Share Image
Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence. — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression. — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
“Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.” — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Parents who engage in this kind of [conscious] parenting understand the power of being present being mindful to take the time to… — Shefali Tsabary Copy Share Image
My love of poetry comes from the "actualization" I experienced in the poetry of others. And I was reading it silently and… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a… — Sidney Jourard Copy Share Image
“(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they… — David Brooks Copy Share Image
“Human beings have an extraordinary capacity to imagine possibilities and then turn those possibilities into realities. Evident in the gifts of civilization—in… — Scott Edmund Miller Copy Share Image
The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
“There is no greater moment in life than that when we discover the unique design which has shaped our lives from the… — Jacob Nordby Copy Share Image
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be motivated by… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
“When telling the story of your life, it is of great value to recognize and focus on the details that reveal or… — Scott Edmund Miller Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace itself. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image