Abraham Maslow Quotes

In order for us to become truly happy, that which we can become, we must become.

The human being is so constructed that he pressed toward fuller and fuller being.

False optimism sooner or later means disillusionment , anger and hopelessness.

I have discovered the missing link between the anthropoid apes and civilized men. It's us!

The job is, if we are willing to take it seriously, to help ourselves to be more perfectly what we are, to be more full, more actualizing, more realizing in fact, what we are in potentiality.

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.

We fear our highest possibility (as well as our lowest one). We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

I can feel guilty about the past apprehensive about the future but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

A musician must make music an artist must paint a poet must write if he to be at peace with himself. What a man can be he must be.

A first rate soup is better than a second rate painting.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.