Actualizers Quotes

#1. Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment ... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.

Abraham Maslow

#2. The difference between highly functioning people and people who live with ordinary levels of consciousness is that the self-actualizers never put their intention on what they don't want. They know that what you think about is what expands.

Wayne Dyer

#3. Have you heard of Job who was made holy on a dunghill, O my soul?

Sophronius Of Jerusalem

#4. Despite her mother, Raven had always been a nice girl. Yes, she would grow up to poison and rampage and try to destroy all happiness, but that was no reason not to be civil.

Shannon Hale

#5. Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Jodi Picoult

#6. The young artist of today need no longer say 'I am a painter,' or 'a poet,' or 'a dancer.' He is simply an 'artist.' All of life will be open to him.

Allan Kaprow

#7. Just film what's there, trust what came before, one hour before, and make it easy.

Jean-Marc Vallee

#8. God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.

C.S. Lewis

#9. Mark: When did you learn to drive? Courtney: About three seconds ago.

D.J. MacHale

#10. They say though that we do more to avoid pain than we do to gain pleasure. So it is when the pain becomes too much that we finally find the courage to make changes.

Bronnie Ware

#11. What is art? Prostitution.

Charles Baudelaire

#12. I not only think that we will tamper with Mother Nature, I think Mother wants us to.

Willard Gaylin

#13. He's a very strange guy, my father. I can't get mad at him because he's so adorable.

Carrie Fisher

#14. Records are only one-dimensional. Even film is only one-dimensional. That's why music and live theatre is so important, because it's not the same thing. A recording is just a record of part of the experience, but it's not the whole experience.

Steve Earle

#15. I met my wife in New York, so, we lived together there for five years, so my Swedish was kind of a gradual learning process.

Greg Poehler

#16. People who object to weapons aren't abolishing violence, they're begging for rule by brute force, when the biggest, strongest animals among men were always automatically 'right.' Guns ended that, and social democracy is a hollow farce without an armed populace to make it work.

L. Neil Smith