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Self Actualization Quotes

    “Exploration of the full range of our own potentialities is not something that we can safely leave to the chances of life. It is something to be pursued systematically, or at least avidly, to the end of our days. We should look forward to an endless and unpredictable dialogue between our potentialities and the claims of life—not only the claims we encounter but the claims we invent. And by potentialities I mean not just skills, but the full range of our capacities for sensing, wondering, learning, understanding, loving and aspiring.”

    John W. Gardner, Self-Renewal (Page 11)

      “The thing we find most fulfilling often coincides with the best way we can serve the world. We all have something that can help others – our task is to find our talent, imbue it with creativity and generate a way to deliver it to people.”

      Yung Pueblo

        “Actualization of self cannot be sought as a goal in its own right… Rather, it seems to be a by-product of active commitment of one’s talents to some cause, outside the self, such as the quest for beauty, truth, or justice.”

        Sidney M. Jourard, via Sunbeams (Page 59) (Read Matt’s Blog On This Quote)

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