The loss of illusions and the discovery of identity, though painful at first, can be ultimately exhilarating and strengthening.

To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

My feeling is that the concept of creativeness and the concept of the healthy, self actualizing, fully human person seem to be coming closer and closer together, and may perhaps turn out to be the same thing

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth.

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

I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it.