What a man can be, he must be. This need we may call self-actualization.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

It is as if Freud supplied us the sick half of psychology and we must now fill it out with the healthy half.

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

-- Hypatia

We survive through adversity and perish through comfort.

-- Mencius

Blue dye is extracted from the indigo plant, yet it is bluer than indigo itself.

-- Xunzi

What does not kill me makes me stronger.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

We are our choices.

-- Jean-Paul Sartre

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

-- Simone de Beauvoir