Quotes About Self Actualisation

#1. What I wasn't expecting was the euphoria once my body began releasing endorphins. The mixture of pain and pleasure was ecstasy. Getting my tattoo introduced me to secret, dark pleasures. I would always be a marked prisoner, but I was a liberated soul.

Scarlet Risque

#2. To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. ( ... ) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

Anthony Giddens

#3. It is the man who loves reading books who gets to know himself

Ndiritu Wahome

#4. To study and at times practice what one has learned, is this not a pleasure?

Confucius

#5. In the west, jobs have become part of an assumed right to self-actualisation. By this creed, a job is part of who we are and we are entitled not simply to a salary but also to satisfaction.

Financial Times

#6. If you're passionate about your work, it makes the people around you want to be involved too.

Wanda Sykes

#7. God' is whatever is the next obvious step towards wholeness in yourself and your life; 'Ego' is whatever within you stops you taking it.

Oli Anderson

#8. I don't want to be all power and muscle.

Shawn Johnson

#9. Be grateful for your difficulties and challenges, for they hold blessings. In fact ... Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health personal growth, individuation and self-actualisation.

Carl Jung

#10. To make the growth choice instead of the fear choice a dozen times a day is to move a dozen times a day towards self-actualisation.

Abraham Maslow

#11. I am shedding.
I am not a new me.
I am my old me in my new me.
I remain, carved with the soul of my knife.
My mess scattered all over my countenance.
I am me.
Take me as I am.

Malebo Sephodi

#12. Oh, sweetie, I'm sorry, you can't have a baby brother, because that would mean that Daddy had sex, and that's never going to happen again.

Christopher Moore

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

Abraham H. Maslow

#14. I'm not a robot. I'm a freak of the universe ... a thinking animal ... and I'm trying to see my way clear through this morass.

Alfred Bester

#15. Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

Baruch Spinoza

#16. I bet if I give all my love then nothing's gonna tear us apart.

Drake