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  • To be happy we must not be too concerned with others. -- Albert Camus
  • Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization. -- Ann Oakley
  • A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! -- Deeba
  • Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for -- Oliver James
  • My mom says you only need three people you can rely on to achieve self-actualization. -- Cassandra Clare
  • To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself -- Meg Cabot
  • The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable -- Aldous Huxley
  • Self-actualization cannot be attained if it is made an end in itself, but only as a side effect of self-transcendence. -- Viktor E. Frankl
  • In life, you don't get instant satisfaction. In life, you get to slog. You work. You grow. You take the long view. You fill the void with self-actualization. -- Amy Dickinson
  • It was psychobabbler Abraham Maslow who wrote of the phenomena of self-actualization. What Maslow failed to grasp is that reaching true self-actualization can only be ultimately achieved when you have your own brand of ammunition. -- Ted Nugent
  • Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves. This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image -- Bruce Lee
  • Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values. -- Abraham Maslow
  • Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right. . . . Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one's talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice. -- Sidney Jourard
  • All the evidence that we have indicates that it is reasonable to assume in practically every human being, and certainly in almost every newborn baby, that there is an active will toward health, an impulse towards growth, or towards the actualization. -- Abraham Maslow
  • Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization. -- Abraham Maslow
  • God is reflected in your heart as your Spirit, called as Atma. Unless and until your attention reaches that Spirit, talking about it, doing anything about it, it's absolutely useless. You have to be really born again. It's an actualization, which should take place. -- Nirmala Srivastava
  • Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves. -- Bruce Lee
  • Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he truly human or does he become his true self. He becomes so, not by concerning himself with his self's actualization, but by forgetting himself and giving himself, overlooking himself and focusing outward. -- Viktor E. Frankl
  • Finding happiness is like finding yourself. You don't find happiness, you make happiness. You choose happiness. Self-actualization is a process of discovering who you are, who you want to be and paving the way to happiness by doing what brings you the most meaning and contentment to your life over the long run. -- David Leonhardt
  • If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be. -- Joseph Campbell
  • "Teachers"... treat students neither coercively nor instrumentally but as joint seekers of truth and of mutual actualization. They help students define moral values not by imposing their own moralities on them but by positing situations that pose hard moral choices and then encouraging conflict and debate. They seek to help students rise to higher stages of moral reasoning and hence to higher levels of principled judgment. -- James MacGregor Burns
  • Self actualization is the oxygen for the soul. -- Brian Johnson
  • Go toward self-actualization rather than self-image actualization... Search within... for honest self- expression. -- Bruce Lee
  • A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization! -- Deeba
  • To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time. -- Cornelius Plantinga
  • Swapping out the nine-to-five for a more agile, independent working life brings with it one other huge benefit - a channel for self-actualization. -- Leah Busque
  • The gift of willingness is the only thing that stands between the quiet desperation of a disingenuous life and the actualization of unexpressed potential. -- Jim McDonald
  • Allowing people to contribute in your life is a leap of faith. And that comes gradually with self actualization and overcoming fears of uncertainty. -- Deepak Chandra
  • Mountains and rivers at this very moment are the actualization of the world of the ancient Buddhas. Each, abiding in its phenomenal expression, realizes completeness. -- Dogen
  • Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need in our lives. -- Lorii Myers
  • The soul contains the event that shall befall it, for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts; and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • What you have to do to achieve what you want necessitates the creative actualization of the totality of your being as it is. Nothing more, but also nothing less. -- Darrell Calkins
  • Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. -- Bo Bennett
  • Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. -- Bo Bennett
  • Every man's foremost task is the actualization of his unique, unprecedented and never-recurring potentialities, and not the repetition of something that another, and be it even the greatest, has already achieved. -- Martin Buber
  • A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately happy. What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization. -- Abraham Maslow
  • The bible is a source of great inspiration to me. It is a textbook of metaphysics. Within the bible are keys to personal growth, and lessons in personal actualization. The bible is a spiritual masterpiece. -- John Fante
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