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A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization.

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.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The fact is that people are good, if only their fundamental wishes are satisfied, their wish for affection and security. Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.