"A musician must make music, an artist must……" — Abraham Maslow
"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. This weed we call self-actualization….It refers to man’s desire for self-fulfillment, namely to the tendency for him to become actually in what he is potentially: to become everything one is capable of becoming."
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Abraham Maslow
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135 Quotes by Abraham Maslow
Abraham Maslow has 135 quotes on this site.
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Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
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Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
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There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There…
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Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
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What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true…
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The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and…
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One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.
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Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
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As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed,…
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One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment…
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[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to…
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To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
— Albert Camus
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Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to…
— Sidney Jourard
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Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with…
— Robert Foster Bennett
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Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process…
— David Leonhardt
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It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love…
— Steve Almond
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Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul.
— Brian Johnson
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Meditation is not a way to enlightenment, Nor is it a method of achieving anything at all. It is peace…
— Dogen
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SETH said: There is nothing more stimulating, more worthy of actualization, than the desire to change the world for the…
— Jane Roberts
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To accept struggle as part of life, to accept all of it, even the darkest moments of anguish; to be…
— Nathaniel Branden
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The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the…
— Jim McDonald
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