No psychological health is possible unless this essential care of the person is fundamentally accepted, loved and respected by others and by himself.

We may define therapy as a search for value.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.

Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

I think of the self-actualizing man not as an ordinary man with something added, but rather as the ordinary man with nothing taken away. The average man is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities.