Actualising Tendency Quotes

“The work that I do on myself may not be evident in my daily exchanges, but little by little, if I continue, I hope that my actions will reflect my changing mindset, and next time, I promise myself, I'll do things differently. Getting on top of my shortcomings is not immediate; it's endless.”
― Kae Tempest, On Connection

“Movement away from defensive destructiveness and towards greater social responsibility is a characteristic of this [actualising] tendency. The political implication of this position is that we do not need to be controlled by authority. We, individually and collectively, not only have the right to self-determination and group determination but, given the necessary conditions, can be trusted to use our power responsibly.”
― Rose Cameron, Person-Centred Practice: The BAPCA Reader

“If awareness and conscious thought are seen as a part of life - not its master nor its opponent but an illumination of the developing process within the individual - then our total life can be the unified and unifying experience that is characteristic in nature.”
― Carl R. Rogers, On Personal Power: Inner Strength and Its Revolutionary Impact

“What matters, is to cultivate and nourish one's own positive characteristics until one reaches a level worthy of being a human.”
― Forugh Farrokhzad, Sin: Selected Poems of Forugh Farrokhzad

“Have you, too, been aware
Of a sort of something inside you,
Something uncertainly there
Like something you never tried?

- Longing”
― John Fuller, The Grey Among the Green

“The cardinal principle of that [pedagogical] philosophy is man's vocation to be more - more, that is, than what he is at any given time or place. There are thus no developed men except in a biological sense. The essence of the human is to be in a continual non-natural process. In other words, the charachteristic of the human species is its repeatedly demonstrated capacity for transcending what is merely given, what is purely determined.”
― João da Veiga Coutinho, Cultural Action for Freedom