We may define therapy as a search for value.

He that is good with a hammer tends to think everything is a nail.

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.

Even when adults do feel their safety to be threatened, we may not be able to see this on the surface. Infants will react in a fashion as if they were endangered, if they are disturbed or dropped suddenly, startled by loud noises, flashing light

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

The most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."