Quotes About Self-actualization

Act as if everything you desire is already here...treat yourself as if you already are what you'd like to become.

Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs.

I was creating someone I could live through, the person I'd be if I redrew the world

the development of a sense of self.

Education should bring to light the ideal of the individual.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.

Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person.

Some of you will never realize that you don't need a relationship to be complete and that you don't need emotional dependency of another human being. You're holding yourself prisoner in that fantasy world you're living in.

One of the greatest sins is the unlived life, not to allow yourself to become chief executive of the project you call your life, to have reverence always for the immensity that is inside you.

Carl Jung put it this way: "The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises." With

The interesting thing about this work is that we don't really do anything for them. If we tried, I think, we would fail miserably. Instead we invite them to do something radically new for themselves

Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals

Don't be afraid to give yourself everything you've ever wanted in life.

Live your life and dreams and become the person you were always meant to be, and let no one stop you.

If you are deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being then you will be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Being true to your vision means fitting your life into your dreams rather than trying fit your dreams into your life.

What concerns me now is that my life be a beautiful, powerful, in a word, a complete life of its kind.

What I would have to do later, starting in college and in the years following, to become a person of inner consequence: break that fawning inner self into pieces.

You are your own idol, you are your own mentor, you are your own student, you are your own colleague, you are your own best friend, you are your own rival, you are your own past, you are your own present, you are your own future, you are your own problem, and you are your own solution because you are you.

Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire to always do better, to overcome new challenges, to self-actualize. Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor.

Don't look for someone to complete you, complete yourself or you'll feel empty when they leave.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.

What are people actually able to do and to be? What real opportunities are available to them?