Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
Interpretation
Marriage and parenthood are profound experiences that teach us valuable life lessons.
In this quote, Abraham Maslow highlights the transformative nature of marriage and parenthood, suggesting that these experiences serve as significant learning opportunities. They can shape one's character and perspective on life, providing insights and revelations that contribute to personal growth.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a wedding speech to emphasize the lessons learned through marriage.
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
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.
Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.
God will always bring the right people into your life, but you have to let the wrong people walk away.
Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers.
I donβt care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
Your only real choices are to open fully and receive their gifts or crucify them and be relieved of their force...But you must be willing to feel your heart's terrors and wounds or else you will close and protect yourself, striking back at the source of openness you most yearn to become.
How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.