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. – Abraham Maslow
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short. – Abraham Maslow
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. – Abraham Maslow
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life. – Abraham Maslow
As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be seeking more exuberance in living as much as staving off failure, putting off dying. We have lost all confidence in the human body. – Lewis Thomas, The Medusa and the Snail, 1979