The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side... It has revealed to us much about man's shortcomin….

Be independent of the good opinion of other people..

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life..

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments..

The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and ….

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail..

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!.

What shall we think of a well-adjusted slave?.

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 appear….

Expression and communication in the peak–experiences tend often to become poetic, mythical, and rhapsodic, as if this were the natural kind of langua….

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the b….

It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different autho….

In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of o….

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth..

[Concerning] the usual contempt with which an orthodox analytic group treats all outsiders and strangers ... I urge you to think of the young psychoa….

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing..

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..

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs..

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious..

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities..