Zitat des Tages von Abraham Maslow:
Work is that which you dislike doing but perform for the sake of external rewards. At school, this takes the form of grades. In society, it means money, status, privilege.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.
If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
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 and preventing communication.
I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
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.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.
What we need is a system of thought - you might even call it a religion - that can bind humans together. A system that would fit the Republic of Chad as well as the United States: a system that would supply our idealistic young people with something to believe in.
You can see neurosis from below - as a sickness - as most psychiatrists see it. Or you can understand it as a compassionate man might: respecting the neurosis as a fumbling and inefficient effort toward good ends.
Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.