When people appear to be something other than good and decent, it is only because they are reacting to stress, pain, or the deprivation of basic human needs such as security, love, and self-esteem.

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

The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences which are so precious in themselves as to prove that not everything is a means to some end other than itself.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

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

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.