Quotes About Self-actualization

Helping professionals, Therapists, Life Coaches, Healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power that's gained from you developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change."

There is a good and needed "narcissism," if you want to call it that. You have to first have an ego structure to then let go of it and move beyond it.

To come from no voice, no power, and to be able to achieve what I have means that only my own personal vision holds me back.

You can be only what you give yourself the power to be.

You can be all that you wish to be.The power is in your own hands.

Self-actualization is not a sudden happening or even the permanent result of long effort. The eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist poet-saint Milarupa suggested: "Do not expect full realization; simply practice every day of your life." A healthy person is not perfect but perfectible, not a done deal but a work in progress. Staying healthy takes discipline, work, and patience, which is why our life is a journey and perforce a heroic one.

Change occurs when one becomes what he is, not when he tries to become what he is not.

Stop thinking of yourself as a victim. You were a target that is now no longer being hit.

That's why history is so important, because if our children had been taught correctly, they would have a burning spirit for freedom, liberation, and self-actualization.

Famously, Gloria Steinem once advised women that they should strive to become like the men they had always wanted to marry. What I've only recently realized is that I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.

Jesus was a human being who, while on Earth, completely self-actualized and fulfilled in all ways the potential glory that lies within us all.

The baby-functions of playing with one's own body, another's body and the environment continue throughout life in all animals. This "playfulness" is a marked characteristic of all conspicuously healthy individuals of the sort Maslow calls "self-actualizers.

The only path that leads to the ultimate you—because beyond goals, that's really what we're talking about—is the path you choose yourself. Nobody is in charge of you but you.

The more we are removed from nature, the more we are denied our birthright to play in forests, climb mountains, follow streams, and fall in love with meadows, to become creative, self-actualized, deeply intuitive.

I make the road. I draw the map. Nothing just happens to me...I'm the one happening.

Others can inspire you, but ultimately the only thing that empowers you is what lies within you and learning how to better utilize what you've been given.

It was about no longer being the kind of person who takes what she can get, and finally becoming the kind of person who creates exactly what she wants.

Before I die, I want to...be the person I'm meant to be and have that be enough.

Awaken its powers, and it will respect itself.

When you don't have children you have to define and make your own purpose, and make your own reason for being here.

Each of us is a microcosm in which the universal process actualizes itself.

Through our work and through getting what we need on our own, without depending on others, we can stand tall and realize our potential as humans.

Daily Law: Do something that makes you feel at the peak of your being today. Mastery, I: Discover Your Calling—The Life's Task

The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.