A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

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.

Life could be vastly improved if we could count our blessings as self-actualizing people can and do, and if we could retain their constant sense of good fortune and gratitude for it.

Self-actualizing people have a deep feeling of identification, sympathy, and affection for human beings in general. They feel kinship and connection, as if all people were members of a single family.

Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

What one can be, one must be!