Occupation: Psychologist Birth: April 1, 1908 Death: June 8, 1970
(Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and ….
The fact that people who create are good workers tends to be lost..
Every person is, in part, 'his own project' and makes himself..
...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 on….
Self-actualizing people must be what they can be..
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment..
What is life for? Life is for you..
Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they wer….
Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for..
Laugh at what you hold sacred, and still hold it sacred..
The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you've got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationshi….
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself..
People are not evil; they are schlemiels..
Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture..
People with intelligence must use their intelligence, people with eyes must use their eyes, people with the capacity to love have the impulse to love….
It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement..
The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more reali….
What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and neces….
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they….
To the extent that language forces experiences into categories it is a screen between reality and the human being. In a word, we pay for its benefits….
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..