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

  • But behavior in the human being is sometimes a defense, a way of concealing motives and thoughts, as language can be a way of hiding your thoughts and preventing communication.

  • One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

  • We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

  • The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.