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.

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.

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

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

I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

You must want to be first-class ...meaning the best, the very best you are capable of becoming. If you deliberately plan to be less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be deeply unhappy for the rest of your life. You will be evading your own capacities, your own possibilities.