If both the physiological and the safety needs are fairly well gratified, then there will emerge love and affection and belongingness needs, and the whole cycle already described will repeat itself with this new centre. Now the person will feel keenl

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.

One can go back toward safety or forward toward growth.

Only the flexibly creative person can really manage the future, Only the one who can face novelty with confidence and without fear.

Fear of knowing is very deeply a fear of doing.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

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