You will either step forward into growth or you will step…

In any given moment we have two options : To step forward into Growth or to Step back into safety.

— Anonymous

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again…

— Abraham Maslow

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

— Abraham Maslow

To get greater than 100% return on a growth step, give up defensiveness. Defensiveness stifles performance, and destroys relationships.

— Henry Cloud

Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.

— Abraham Maslow

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?

— Abraham Maslow

The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience…

— Abraham Maslow

The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions.…

— Abraham Maslow

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

— Abraham Maslow

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of language to…

— Abraham Maslow

Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

— Abraham Maslow

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

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices…

— Abraham Maslow

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

— Connie Zweig

“See, the human mind is kind of like...a pinata. When it breaks open, there's a lot of surprises inside. Once you get the pinata…

— Jane Wagner