Actualization Quotes

It is in the nature of helping and counselling to be a process moving towards something rather than arriving at a state of completion.

The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.

It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.

Otto Rank

Historical materialism has every reason to distinguish itself sharply from bourgeois habits of thought. Its founding concept is not progress but actualization.

Walter Benjamin

(William) Deresiewicz offers a vision of what it takes to move from adolescence to adulthood. Everyone is born with a mind, he writes, but it is only through introspection, observation, connecting the head and the heart, making meaning of experience and finding an organizing purpose that you build a unique individual self.

When telling the story of your life, it is of great value to recognize and focus on the details that reveal or inspire an empowered unfolding of your being. Much like rewriting your own DNA, every aspect of your life and growth will emanate from the building blocks of your history—however you choose to tell it. This is not to suggest that you should deny or bury your mistakes, traumas or misfortunes, but rather, recognize and reveal them within an empowered context of a bigger picture.

Scott Edmund Miller

The person who fights monsters should make sure that in the process, he does not become a monster himself. Because when you stare down at an abyss, the abyss stares back at you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind usis a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another

Our wishes become real and solid if we work on their formation. If it matters to you, make energy become matter.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

I am an artist. Any artist knows that their creations, their pieces must express an array of human emotion and experience. From the juvenile and innocent, to the erotic and the dangerous, and everything in between. Because Life is all of these things and more. It is the artist's divine purpose to reflect what Experience has shown them and others. What truly sets us apart from each other is whether or not we truly know ourselves enough to reflect objectively; but, through our own unique 'voice'.

Your power to choose can never be taken from you. It can be neglected and it can be ignored. But if used, it can make all the difference.

The highest form of wisdom comes from deep observation, kind realization, and curious actualization.

Debasish Mridha

Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.

Marcus Aurelius

We Person-Centred Approach people are as human as anyone else after all, and, as does everyone, must daily face the difference between our aspirations and stated values, and our actual choices and behaviours, and the resulting outcomes. However, we keep giving ourselves a chance to change, again and again, thus more closely approximating our hopes for how we can be together

The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.

Israelmore Ayivor

Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals

Human beings have an extraordinary capacity to imagine possibilities and then turn those possibilities into realities. Evident in the gifts of civilization—in our arts, languages, sciences, technologies, businesses, governments, and so on—it is clear that we are a profoundly creative species. Yet many of us only access a smidgen of our creativity.

Scott Edmund Miller

Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice.