Quotes About Self-actualization

Men no longer looked at them. Heads did not turn; there were no anticipatory smiles when they appeared. They had given up on the security of knowing that men thought they were forces to be reckoned with, if only on the level of lust. Now they had become real forces. They were, for better or worse, real people.

Women, healed and whole, will find undreamed resources in themselves.

I'm a man who believes that I died 20 years ago. And I live like a man who is dead already. I have no fear whatsoever of anybody or anything.

To bear a child or to get married is not the primary goal for a lady who wants to become successful in life

The impetus to grow and live intensely is so powerful in me I cannot resist it. I will work, I will love my husband, but I will fulfill myself.

I've said that if you write, you're a writer. The reverse is also true: if you're a writer, you need to write. Even if you're not achieving certain career or artistic markers on your schedule, you'll be self-actualized or in the process of self-actualizing, and that's what helps equip you to give back to the world in a variety of ways.

People don't become what they were brought up to be, people become themselves. (p.146)

If we could only live the way we know deep down we should, we would guarantee ourselves a life of richness & fulfillment.

Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life.

What distinguishes the Jungian approach to developmental psychology from virtually all others is the idea that even in old age we are growing towards realization of our full potential. This

I want people to know that they are the masters, the queens, kings, and gods of their own story.

What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'.

Become who you are!

No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life. There may be countless trails and bridges and demigods who would gladly carry you across; but only at the price of pawning and forgoing yourself. There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don't ask, walk!

I know for sure that you have to re-define power as power that comes from within. Success needs to be more comprehensive and attached to something with meaning.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

The more we have sought self-fulfillment, self-actualization, self-awareness, and self-esteem, the more we have distanced ourselves from the ones who can teach us who we really are. We have failed to recognize that as our ties to our earthly parents have unraveled, so have our ties to our heavenly parents. (Chapter 6)

Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential.

It is very important that you only do what you love to do. you may be poor, you may go hungry, you may lose your car, you may have to move into a shabby place to live, but you will totally live. And at the end of your days you will bless your life because you have done what you came here to do. Otherwise, you will live your life as a prostitute, you will do things only for a reason, to please other people, and you will never have lived. and you will not have a pleasant death.

All growing up means is that you realize no one will come along and fix things.

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

The difference between those people living their potential and those who don't, is not the amount of potential itself, but the amount of permission they give themselves to live in the present