Abraham Maslow

"We fear to know the fearsome and unsavoury aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."

"Kindness and gentleness are the strongest forces in the world."

"There is no greater guarantee of infidelity than a lengthy courtship."

"The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination."

"Neurosis is the avoidance of legitimate suffering."

"What good is the warmth of summer without the cold of winter to give it sweetness?"

"Quality of life is determined by the questions we ask ourselves."

"One can think of conscience as a voice, but it's really the internalized voice of one's best teachers."

"Perhaps we can learn something from the American Indian philosophy of never forgetting we are part of nature, not separate from it."

"The tendency to group hostile ideas and feelings into complexes is a normal psychological process."

"The more honest one can be with oneself, the more one can understand about others."

"Beauty is a promise of happiness."

"The whole world changes when you change your perspective."

"We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."

"Self-sacrifice is not a virtue if it is not done freely and consciously."

"The only real limitation on our realization of our dreams is our own lack of resolve or our lack of faith."

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

"The best way to help the world is to help one person, very well."

"Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself."

"We are dying from the inside out when we fail to follow our most fundamental impulses."

"The person who is willing to give up his freedom for security is no longer free."

"In the East, they've known for centuries that an open question is more valuable than a closed answer."

"The amount of courage varies with our sensitivity and our need for safety."

"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."

"The feeling that life is obligatory rather than a privilege makes for a grayness in living that is truly lamentable."

"One's only rival is one's own potentialities."

"Assuming someone else will solve the world's problems is the height of immorality."

"The purpose of psychotherapy is to give the patient back his own powers, not to confer upon him the powers of the psychotherapist."

"Lack of information about the world is one form of psychopathology."

"We are not enforcing uniformity of opinion. We are advocating the application of intelligence to the solution of the world's problems."