The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

Human beings seem to be far more autonomous and self-governed than modern psychological theory allows for.

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.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.