“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
“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
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
A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! — Anonymous 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
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
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
Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering… — David Leonhardt 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
The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The more the development of late capitalism renders obsolete or at least suspect the real possibilities of self, self-fulfillment and actualization, the… — Richard Rosen 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
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
What an artist does, is fail. Any reading of the literature, (I mean the literature of artistic creation), however summary, will persuade… — Donald Barthelme 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
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
The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of… — Jim McDonald 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
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
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
“It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state… — Pete Sanders 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
What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that… — Nirmala Srivastava 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