What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life.

As one studies these preconditions, one becomes saddened by the ease with which human potentiality can be destroyed or repressed, so that a fully-human person can seem like a miracle, so improbable a happening as to be awe-inspiring. And simultaneously one is heartened by the fact that self-actualizing persons do in fact exist, that they are therefore possible, that the gauntlet of dangers can be run, that the finish line can be crossed.

Creative people are all there, totally immersed, fascinated and absorbed in the present, in the current situation, in the here-now, with the matter-in-hand.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

What kind of guilt comes from being true to yourself but not to others?. As we have seen, being true to yourself may at times intrinsically and necessarily be in conflict with being true to others.