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What one can be, one must be!
What is life for? Life is for you.
Man is a perpetually wanting animal.
We do what we are and we are what we do.
People are not evil; they are schlemiels.
We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves
We may define therapy as a search for value.
What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?
Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.
Well why not a technology of joy, of happiness?
Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.
Be independent of the good opinion of other people.
One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.
Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.
The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?
Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself.
Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.
Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost.
He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.
An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious.
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
Language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.
Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.
False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.
It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.
The key question isn't, 'What fosters creativity?' But it is, 'Why isn't everyone creative?'