What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
There seems no intrinsic reason why everyone shouldn't be (self-actualising). Apparently every baby has possibilities for self-actualisation, but most get it knocked… — Abraham Maslow 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
I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that… — Abraham Maslow 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
A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing… — Abraham Maslow 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
Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share Image
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
...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,… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
Plateau experiencing can be achieved, learned, earned by long hard work… A transient glimpse is certainly possible in the peak experiences which may, after… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
If you treat your children at home in the same way you treat your animals in the lab, your wife will scratch your eyes… — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss. — Abraham Maslow Copy Share
