Self Actualization Quotes - Page 2

• The more one forgives himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Giving, Causes, Mans Search For Meaning

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• To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.

  Albert Camus

  Happiness, Happy, Laughter

  "The Fall". Book by Albert Camus, 1956.

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• It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Nelson Mandela (2003). “Nelson Mandela: from freedom to the future : tributes and speeches”, Jonathan Ball Publishers

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• Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.

  Ann Oakley

  Inspirational, Self, Cleaning

  Ann Oakley (1974). “Woman's work: the housewife, past and present”, Vintage

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• You don't find happiness, you make happiness.

  David Leonhardt

  Finding Happiness, Discovering Yourself, Discovering Who You Are

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• What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualizat ion.

  Abraham Maslow

  Men, Self, Ions

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• (Some people) have a wonderful capacity to appreciate again and again, freshly and naively, the basic goods of life, with awe, pleasure, wonder, and even ecstasy.

  Abraham Maslow

  Thanksgiving, Appreciation, Gratitude

  Abraham H. Maslow (1970). “Motivation and Personality”

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• A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

  Abraham Maslow

  Inspirational, Music, Peace

  Abraham Harold Maslow, Edward Hoffman (1996). “Future visions: the unpublished papers of Abraham Maslow”, Sage Publications, Inc

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• The person in peak-experiences feels himself, more than other times, to be the responsible, active, creating center of his activities and of his perceptions. He feels more like a prime-mover, more self-determined (rather than caused, determined, helpless, dependent, passive, weak, bossed). He feels himself to be his own boss, fully responsible, fully volitional, with more "free-will" than at other times, master of his fate, an agent.

  Abraham Maslow

  Fate, Creating, Agency

  Abraham Harold Maslow (1999). “Toward a psychology of being”, Wiley

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• I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do.

  Nelson Mandela

  Morning, Knowing, Wake Up

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A tenacious grip on our own ideals, irrespective of hurdles, would propel us towards self-actualization!

  Deeba

  Self, Hurdle, Ideals

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• To try deliberately for self-actualization is like trying very hard to fall asleep or to have a good time.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Fall, Self, Trying

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• Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for.

  Oliver James

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Doing Your Own Thing

  "Fictional character: Jay Corgan". "Raise Your Voice", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• ...being human always points, and is directed, to something, or someone, other than oneself—be it meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself—by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love—the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself.... What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Simple, Self, Giving

  Viktor E. Frankl (2017). “Man's Search for Meaning: A Young Adult Edition”, p.109, Beacon Press

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• To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

  Meg Cabot

  Inspirational, Life, Self

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• I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Leader, Ordinary

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "A Return to Love" by Marianne Williamson, (p. 191), March 15, 1996.

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• Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and door will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Positive, Rest In Peace, Rip

  "The Power of Myth". Book by Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers edited by Betty Sue Flowers, 1988.

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• I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Writing, Self, Order

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Careers, Bliss

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• 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

  Lying, Mean, Self

  Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.44, Tuttle Publishing

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• Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.

  Rollo May

  Risk, Intimacy, Actualization

  Rollo May (1994). “The Courage to Create”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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

  Self, Reaching, Abraham

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• Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspiring, Justice For All, Water

  Presidential Inaugural Speech, delivered 10 May 1994, Pretoria, South Africa

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• Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets them at the gates of heaven, totes up how many fields of self-expression they have mastered, and then hands them a divine diploma and lets them in.

  David Brooks

  School, Self, Expression

  David Brooks (2011). “The Paradise Suite: Bobos in Paradise and On Paradise Drive”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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