Quotes About Self-actualization

Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved.

There are billions of different versions of an older you. There is one version of the present you.

S)he no longer felt she was there simply to serve the dreams of other people. She no longer felt like she had to find sole fulfillment as some imaginary perfect daughter or sister or parter or wife or mother or employee or anything other than a human being, orbiting her own purpose, and answerable to herself.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and a becoming is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

She became who she had been meant to be

How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself

It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry

If the goal of higher education is, in fact, to foster a self-actualization (Maslow 1967), certain personally significant experiences must occur.

The solution is to gradually become free of societal rewards and learn how to substitute for them rewards that are under one's own powers.

Power returns to the person when rewards are no longer relegated to outside forces. It is no longer necessary to struggle for goals that always seem to recede into the future, to end each boring day with the hope that tomorrow, perhaps, something good will happen. Instead of forever straining for the tantalizing prize dangled just out of reach, one begins to harvest the genuine rewards of living.

Most of us haven't begun to tap our own potential; we're operating way below capacity. And we'll continue as long as we are looking for someone to give us the key to the kingdom. We must realize that the kingdom is in us; and we already have the key. It's as if we're waiting for permission to start fully living.

The ultimate aim of the ego is not to see something, but to be something.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Live in the feeling of being the one you want to be and that you shall be.

By desiring to be other than what you are, you can create an ideal of the person you want to be and assume that you are already that person.

It is pointless to be any less than all you can be.

It is pointless to be any less than all you can be. - Sabine Strohem

The Self must create           Its own reasons for being.           To shape God,           Shape Self.

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

Picking Another Channel "Emancipate yourself from mental slavery. None but ourselves can free our minds.

The punishment imposed on us for claiming true self can never be worse than the punishment we impose on ourselves by failing to make that claim. And the converse is true as well: no reward anyone might give us could possibly be greater than the reward that comes from living by our own best lights.

Can anyone tell you when you're grown up?" Another