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Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs.
The major motivation theories by which most men live can lead them only to depression and cynicism.
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world.
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.
One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.
Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering.
We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.
It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.
We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything.
A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.
Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.
We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction.
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
We must understand love; we must be able to teach it, to create it, to predict it, or else the world is lost to hostility and to suspicion.
Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth.
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.
The spiritual life is part of the human essence. It is a defining characteristic of human nature, without which human nature is not fully human.
No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled? ...a good question might be not why do people create? But why do people not create or innovate?
Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.
Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.
The theory of science which permits and encourages the exclusion of so much that is true and real and existent cannot be considered a comprehensive science.
The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.
Common sense means living in the world as it is today; but creative people are people who don't want the world as it is today but want to make another world.
I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
...the great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's backyard.
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.
Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.
In the ideal college, intrinsic education would be available to anyone who wanted it...The college would be life-long, for learning can take place all through life.
If you love the truth, you'll trust it - that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run.
If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.