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.
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives.
History has its truth, and so has legend. Legendary truth is of another nature than historical truth. Legendary truth is invention whose result is reality. Furthermore, history and legend have the same goal; to depict eternal man beneath momentary man.
Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.
Masonry is not a religion._x000D_ He who makes of it a religious belief, falsifies and denaturalizes it.
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