Quotes About Self-actualization

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star.

The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man.

You can become anything you want to be ... It's a matter of authority. Whatever a man's confidence, that's his capacity.

Don't let others define you. Don't let the past confine you. Take charge of your life with confidence and determination and there are no limits on what you can do or be.

When the actions of others no longer matter, then you will have succeeded within your own mind.

I give myself permission to be all that I can be, and I deserve the very best in life.

Don't die with your music still inside.

When you become the image of your own imagination, it's the most powerful thing you could ever do.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

I think the rampant individualism of our current culture is a catastrophe. The emphasis on self—individual success, self-fulfillment, individual freedom, self-actualization—is a catastrophe.

Every man knows that his highest purpose in life cannot be reduced to any particular relationship. If a man prioritizes his relationship over his highest purpose, he weakens himself, disserves the universe, and cheats his woman of an authentic man who can offer his full, undivided presence.

The "self-actualization" philosophy from which most of this new bureaucratic language emerged insists that we live in a timeless present, that history means nothing, that we simply create the world around us through the power of the will.

And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.

On this path, we are making a bet that underneath all of that, you are big and powerful and good. All of that power, that wisdom, and that excellence is your true nature. All you have to do is carve away and drop the bullshit.

Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

You create the happiness and the balance that you have, and your own power. This is one thing that I know to be true.

Happiness lies in your own hand

When you deprive yourself of happiness, you deprive yourself your sense of being.

Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

There is no paycheck that can equal the feeling of contentment that comes from being the person you are meant to be.

Everybody should have the opportunity to do and be everything they can be.

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.

Claiming your life for yourself feels like a huge deal until you do it.

I do think that fist-waving conversations around liberation ideologies are sort of dated - I'm not creating Barbara Kruger moments of self-actualization - what I'm trying to do is create more moments of chaos where we don't really know where we are: to destabilize; where all the rules are suspended temporarily.