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.
Interpretation
This quote suggests that every human, especially newborns, has an inherent desire to grow and achieve their full potential.
Abraham Maslow emphasizes the intrinsic motivation present in individuals, indicating that there is a fundamental drive toward health and personal growth in everyone. This motivation manifests as an instinctual push towards self-actualization, suggesting that our natural state is one of progress and development, which can be nurtured and encouraged throughout life.
In practice
In a motivational speech to inspire students about their future.
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 authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.
I'm almost like three people. There's me the, Dolly, the person. There's me, the star. And then there's me, the manager.
As a social concept, 'white' is profound in its meaning. It means people who either come from or appear to come from Europe, but it's necessarily a construct of oppression.
But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the "progressives" nor the "integralists" seem to possess it - the latter even less than the former.
It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.
Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.
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