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The fully realized person is one who has discovered and is developing his or her own potentialities.
To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
In solitude, we discover that our being is enough.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
The meaning of our existence is not invented by ourselves, but rather detected.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
The human being is essentially self-determining; he becomes what he wills himself to be.
The course of human life is not determined by drives or environment alone, but by creative self-direction as well.
Joy is the emotion which accompanies the fulfillment of our natures when we have lived up to our potential.
Freedom is man's capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our capacity to mold ourselves.
To love means to open ourselves to the negative as well as the positive - to grief, sorrow, and disappointment as well as to joy, fulfillment, and an intensity of consciousness we did not know was possible before.
The creative process must be explored as the expression of normal people in the act of actualizing themselves.
The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
I believe that the testing of the student's achievements in order to see if he meets some criterion held by the teacher, is directly contrary to the implications of therapy for significant learning.
The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
When I have been listened to and when I have been heard, I am able to re-perceive my world in a new way and go on. It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.