We cannot study creativeness in an ultimate sense until we realize that practically all the definitions that we have been using of creativeness are e….

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately,….

There is, first, the desire for strength, for achievement, for adequacy, for confidence in the face of the world, and for independence and freedom. S….

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and u….

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont..

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction..

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 s….

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

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 peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences ….

As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-hum….

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curi….

Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers apprec….

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

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?.

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection..

Man is a perpetually wanting animal..

Human nature has been sold short...[humans have] a higher nature which...includes the need for meaningful work, for responsibility, for creativeness,….

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment..

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth..

When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic huma….