Abraham Maslow

"Beauty is one of the highest values, as important as truth and goodness"

"The need for love is deeper and stronger than the need for food"

"Art is the best way to express our inner world and emotions"

"One's own growth is the only moral purpose"

"I choose to make the vision of compassion and peace a reality"

"Faith in the possibility of said changes is necessary"

"We are more ready to die than to change our way of life"

"The gratitude comes from accepting things just as they come"

"History is a set of lies agreed upon until time changes them"

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you treat everything as if it were a nail"

"The impulse to create is perhaps as deep and universal as the sexual impulse"

"I think of psychotherapy like that - it's a search for a better fit between inner and outer realities"

"It seems we are saving ourselves as a species by creating"

"Learning and growth are lifelong"

"The great traditions of mankind are repeating and reinforcing mankind's deepest truths"

"The individual's only real responsibility is to arrive at his own definition of himself"

"It isn't normal to come to a place where you're satisfied. You have to keep advancing"

"The pursuit of knowledge is the calling of the intellect"

"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves"

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

"Testing oneself is essential to growth"

"Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night"

"The more honest one is, the more one is able to love"

"Wasting one's life is the greatest sin possible"

"We are not doomed to repetition of the past; we can learn from history"

"The things we fear most in organizations are usually those things we most need to learn"

"Conflict and evil bring out the depth and beauty in things"

"Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"The fully functioning person is so absorbed in the world that he forgets his own ego"