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Life is about Being & Becoming

With the price of life these days, you've got to get everything for free you can.

Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem.

Neurotic behavior is quite predictable. Healthy behavior is unpredictable.

Unless man can make new and original adaptations to his environment as rapidly as his science can change the environment, our culture will perish.

The only person who cannot be helped is that person who blames others.

It is a direction not a destination.

Man's inability to communicate is a result of his failure to listen effectively.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

As no one else can know how we perceive, we are the best experts on ourselves.

I was forced to stretch my thinking, to realize that sincere and honest people could believe in very divergent religious doctrines.

Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!

Powerful is our need to be known, really known by ourselves and others, even if only for a moment.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

I prize the privilege of being alone.

No other person's ideas, and none of my own ideas, are as authoritative as my experience.

What you are to be, you are now becoming.

A person cannot teach another person directly; a person can only facilitate another's learning

To be original, or different, is felt to be "dangerous."

The organism has one basic tendency and striving - to actualize, maintain, and enhance the experiencing organism

It's an awful risky thing to live

It is astonishing how elements that seem insoluble become soluble when someone listens.

Learning of all kinds goes on best, lasts best, and tends to lead itself on more when it grows out of a real focus of interest in the learner.

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

There is in every organism, at whatever level, an underlying flow of movement toward constructive fulfillment of its inherent possibilities.

Life, at its best, is a flowing, changing process in which nothing is fixed.

Don't be the ammunition wagon, be the rifle knowledge exists primarily for use.

The purpose of adult education is to help them to learn, not to teach them all you know and thus stop them from learning.

People only seriously consider change when they feel accepted for exactly who they are.

I have come to realize that being trustworthy does not demand that I be rigidly consistent but that I be dependably real.

Loneliness is a barrier that prevents one from uniting with the inner self.

Experience is the highest authority.