Quotes from Abraham Maslow

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves.

Become aware of internal, subjective, sub-verbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.

Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of over-protection, which in turn implies a certain lack of respect for the integrity and the intrinsic nature and the future development of the individual.

The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists -that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard, and that travel may be a flight from confronting the sacred- this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, every problem looks like a nail.

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

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

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

I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.

If you think only of evil, then you become pessimistic and hopeless like Freud. But if you think there is no evil, then you're just one more deluded Pollyanna.

The test of a man is: does he bear apples? Does he bear fruit?

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

Since my mother is the type that's called schizophrenogenic in the literature-she's the one who makes crazy people, crazy children-I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

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.

Self-actualized people...live more in the real world of nature than in the man-made mass of concepts, abstractions, expectations, beliefs and stereotypes that most people confuse with the world.

We must remember that knowledge of one's own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy

Boys will be boys as long as there are no girls in the picture.

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

An invisible car came out of nowhere, struck my vehicle and vanished.

It is unfortunate to consider all lawyers as natural Satanists many are just dumb.