It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss..

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

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of g….

A child wants some kind of undisrupted routine or rhythm. He seems to want a predictable, orderly world..

But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts an….

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth..

The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it cripp….

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 innova….

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 ….

I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average….

Love, safety, belongingness and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild characte….

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same s….

Getting used to our blessings is one of the most important non-evil generators of human evil, tragedy and suffering..

Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human….

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….

I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of ….

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear..

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 anothe….

We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throu….

What one can be, one must be!.

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great….