Abraham Maslow

"The more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know."

"Justice requires that we treat others as we would wish to be treated."

"Adventure is the spice of life; without it, we merely exist."

"The human spirit has an infinite capacity for growth and renewal."

"The person who says it is impossible should not interrupt the person doing it."

"Self-actualization is not something you achieve once and you're done. It's an ongoing process of becoming."

"The need for safety is nearly as important as the need for food when a person feels threatened."

"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 great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through argument, debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand."

"Courage is not the absence of fear but rather an assessment that something else is more important than fear."

"What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic that we rarely notice it normally."

"We are responsible for our own happiness and sadness, not the world around us."

"The same person is not always the same. His values change, his opinions change, his way of looking at things changes."

"Peak experiences can occur to anyone under the right circumstances, not just to the exceptional few."

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again."

"You will either step forward into growth or backward into safety."

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

"When basic needs are unmet, higher needs seem unimportant or irrelevant."

"A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself."

"If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I wouldn't despair. I would simply swim toward the nearest star."

"The goal of psychotherapy should be the same as the goal of education: to produce good human beings."

"It is possible to be a good human being while not being a perfect human being."

"The desire to create is one of the deepest urges of the human soul."

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

"Health is not simply the absence of disease, but a positive sense of wellness and fulfillment."

"Human nature has no limitation except those we believe it to have."

"The neurotic person is fixed and static in his attitudes and opinions."

"A child's life is like a piece of paper on which every person leaves a mark."

"Discomfort between people is the price we pay for sticking to our convictions."