"It looks as if there were a single……" — Abraham Maslow
"It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be."
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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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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, an poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at…
— Abraham Maslow
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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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