Abraham Maslow

"The science of learning should be the science of living."

"Only the free are creative; only the free are original."

"The sacred is in the ordinary. We are to find it in our daily lives."

"Every act of creation is first an act of destruction of the old to make way for the new."

"The paradox is that we often need to lose everything to find what is truly important."

"The human being needs meaning like he needs vitamins."

"Bad people are made from good people who are not yet free."

"Envy is a form of poverty of imagination."

"The basic needs of human beings are not very different from those of other animals."

"To self-actualize means to make actual what you are potentially."

"The deeper self is what is basically good and innocent."

"All of life is education and nobody is finally educated."

"The ability to accept ambiguity and paradox is a sign of maturity."

"The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."

"We fear to know the fearless."

"One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only real frustration is not to become what one has the capability of becoming."

"The amount of ecstasy we experience in life is proportional to the amount of truth we can accept."

"For the man who loves his work and looks forward to doing it tomorrow, the distinction between work and play is utterly meaningless."

"If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that very existence of such a world is an affront."

"Self-actualization means fulfilling the potential that you have. It's a higher need than self-esteem."

"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first-born child of nobleness."

"To the extent that people are self-actualizing, they are by definition moving toward what I have called the spiritual life."

"We may define self-esteem as appreciating our own worth and importance and having the character to be accountable for ourselves."

"What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."

"The average person only uses ten percent of his intellectual capacity."

"Peak experiences may be transient, but their effects can be lasting and integrating into the personality and the life of the individual."

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail."

"I think of psychotherapy as having a deep faith in human nature, faith that it can unfold and grow."

"The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side."