- "When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail."
- "What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself."
- "What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization."
- "We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves."
- "We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings."
- "The way to recover the meaning of life and the worthwhileness of life is to recover the power of experience, to have impulse voices from within, and to be able to hear these impulse voices from within-and make the point: This can be done."
- "The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short."
- "The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness."
- "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."
- "If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life."
- "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."
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