(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
“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
Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable. We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us. — Rollo May 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
“Loss is merely a tool for evaluation, organization, determination and actualization towards being the best you that you can possibly be.” — Jennifer Sodini 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
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
To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
The bible is a source of great inspiration to me. It is a textbook of metaphysics. Within the bible are keys to… — John Fante Copy Share Image
It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want… — Elaine Equi 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
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
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
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
God is reflected in your heart as your Spirit, called as Atma. Unless and until your attention reaches that Spirit, talking about… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being… — Viktor E. Frankl 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
SETH said: There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the better. That… — Jane Roberts Copy Share Image
The puzzle and conundrums of Emily Dickinson's poetry or The Cantos, by Ezra Pound, is infinitely pleasurable. Or Ronald Johnson's Ark. And… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
"Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral… — James MacGregor Burns Copy Share Image
“Self-actualization is not a sudden happening or even the permanent result of long effort. The eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist poet-saint Milarupa suggested: "Do… — David Richo 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
“The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.” — Israelmore Ayivor 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
Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal… — Dogen Copy Share Image
The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable — Aldous Huxley 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
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
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
Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another,… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image