When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.- Abraham Maslow
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.
We may define therapy as a search for value.
We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
The story of the human race is the story of men and women selling themselves short.
The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.
It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
If you deliberately plan on being less than you are capable of being, then I warn you that you'll be unhappy for the rest of your life.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
