146 Quotes About Self-actualization

Any person whom seeks to live a historical existence must devote their efforts to learning about the world, care about people and nature, and seek to express their thoughts in the artistic methodology most appropriate to their particular talent. A person cannot fake self-awareness or imitate an artistic nature. A person must honestly earn a heightened level of conscious awareness.

The greatest act of personal courage is conscientiously to mature, by resolutely striving to achieve self-actualization and self-realization. A person who knows their true self and lives their life in an authentic manner while pursuing their honest passions will lose his misery.

Self-development requires direct action. Knowledge must precede action. The self’s relation to the world must be grounded in reality through ideas and thoughts. Self-reflection and introspection expands our appreciation of life.

People like to catch lights and put them inside their jars, so they can say they're lightkeepers. They like to capture bolts of lightning, the aurora borealis, flames and rainbows. If you are any of these, your friends and family and random passersby are going to want to control you in one way or the other. Don't be captured. Don't be put into their jars.

No one is perfect, and that's what makes life and living a perfect start. Where there is no yardstick or measure for perfection, one learns to accept that they simply are perfect just as they are; one can be whatever they so choose to be and that which they choose freely is perfect. How more profoundly can freedom of expression and freewill be illustrated?

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

Shed who you think you are, to experience who you really are.

Shed who you think you are, in order to experience who you really are.

Nothingness is the beginning of everything. Fret not when thou hath nought; be merry for thou hath but an empty scroll whereon to write thy own reality.