We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
From Abraham Maslow
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.
Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.
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.
With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It's made up of pioneers, the beginners. That's where the action is.
Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
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