Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the potential for self-determination and growth in every moment.
Abraham Maslow's quote suggests that individuals hold within themselves the power to shape their own future. It highlights the idea that the present moment is rich with possibilities and that personal growth and transformation are always attainable, driven by one's thoughts, actions, and choices.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal development.
It looks as if there were a single ultimate goal for mankind, a far goal toward which all persons strive. This is called variously by different authors self-actualization, self-realization, integration, psychological health, individuation, autonomy, creativity, productivity, but they all agree that this amounts to realizing the potentialities of the person, that is to say, becoming fully human, everything that person can be.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
The study of crippled, stunted, immature, and unhealthy specimens can yield only a cripple psychology and a cripple philosophy
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.
I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.
A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.
Although its light is wide and great, the Moon is reflected in a puddle one inch wide. The whole Moon and the entire sky is reflected in one dew drop on the grass.
I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful.
It is due to justice; due to humanity; due to truth; due to the sympathies of our nature; in fine, to our character as a people, both abroad and at home, that they should be considered, as much as possible, in the light of human beings, and not as mere property. As such, they are acted on by our laws, and have an interest in our laws. They may be considered as making a part, though a degraded part, of the families to which they belong.
All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
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