What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.
Interpretation
Self-actualization is the realization of one's full potential and capabilities.
This quote by Abraham Maslow emphasizes the importance of personal growth and realizing one's true potential. It suggests that individuals have an intrinsic need to become the best version of themselves, and that embracing this need is essential for fulfillment and happiness in life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing one's dreams.
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.
Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
For the human mind is seldom at stay: If you do not grow better, you will most undoubtedly grow worse.
As soon as you try to eliminate a thought or emotion, you make it stronger.
When someone mistreats you, the correct reaction is not to go out and do something to destroy somebody else's property.
No one is so eager to gain new experiences as he who doesn't know how to make use of the old ones.
He is senseless who would match himself against a stronger man; for he is deprived of victory and adds suffering to disgrace.
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