The minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion.

I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I’d still swim. And I’d despise the one who gave up.

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive—the risk to be alive and express what we really are.”

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

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

Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.

We crave and fear becoming truly ourselves

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

God is going to supersize my dream. He can do more than I ask or imagine.

Quitting smoking can be a very good test of ones character. Pass the test and you will have accomplished so much more than just get rid of one bad habit

Fear is the enemy of logic.

When we free ourselves from the constraints of ordinary goals and uninformed scoffers we will find ourselves roaring off the face of the earth

Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth). Make the growth choice a dozen times a day

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.

Bill Cosby, comedian: “Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.”

If you love the truth, you’ll trust it – that is, you will expect it to be good, beautiful, perfect, orderly, etc., in the long run, not necessarily in the short run

One cannot choose wisely for a life unless he dares to listen to himself, his own self, at each moment of his life

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

The human being needs a framework of values, a philosophy of life, a religion or religion-surrogate to live by and understand by, in about the same sense that he needs sunlight, calcium or love.

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.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person

you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you’ll be unhappy for the rest of your life.

Growth takes place when the next step forward is subjectively more delightful, more joyous, more intrinsically satisfying than the previous gratification which we have become familiar and even bored.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually

One of the goals of education should be to teach that life is precious

Love, safety, belongingness, and respect from other people are almost panaceas for the situational disturbances and even for some of the mild character disturbances.

It isn’t normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

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

We may define therapy as a search for value

The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that is to be found in one’s daily life.

Secrecy, censorship, dishonesty, and blocking of communication threaten all the basic needs

Creativity is a characteristic given to all human beings at birth

We have got to abandon the sense of amazement in the face of creativity as if it were a miracle if anybody created anything

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

We all have everything we need within us to create our fullest potential

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act.

We do what we are and we are what we do.

One’s only failure is failing to live up to one’s own possibilities.

Every person is, in part, ‘his own project’ and makes himself

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.

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

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Be independent of the good opinion of other people

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.

A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness

If the essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later.

The more we can lower the need for defense, the higher the need for growth.”

What one can be, one must be

Education can become a self-fulfilling activity, liberating in and of itself.

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

The need for self-actualization is the desire for self-expression, to become actualized in what you are potentially