Actualization Quotes

“Every living organism is fulfilled when it follows the right path for its own nature.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming.”
― Matthew Arnold

“It doesn’t take much to come into your own; all it takes is someone’s gaze. It’s not totally accurate to say that I felt seen. It was more that: Beheld by her, I learned how to become myself. Her interest actualized me.”
― Ling Ma, Bliss Montage

“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, Beyond Psychology

“The outer world is a reflection of our inner selves.”
― Bryant McGill

“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

“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

“Our wishes become real and solid if we work on their formation. If it matters to you, make energy become matter.”
― Patricia Robin Woodruff

“The highest form of wisdom comes from deep observation, kind realization, and curious actualization.”
― Debasish Mridha

“The leader’s joy is the success of change, the evidence of progress and the actualization of a better life.”
― Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Frontpage: Leadership Insights from 21 Martin Luther King Jr. Thoughts

“Take a step towards actualizing the very thing you are persuaded for and do not allow injustice to silence your voice.”
― Sunday Adelaja, The Mountain of Ignorance

“عندما تغير الطريقة التي تنظر فيها إلى الأشياء، تتغير الأشياء التي تنظر إليها”
― Esther Hicks, Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires

“We cannot define ourselves without negating the alternatives that we do not become.”
― William Barrett, Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy

“The most fulfilled people are those who completely express themselves via their work. You know when this happens because even though you are working very hard – much harder than ordinary people – everything is in a sense effortless. Once you exist in such a way, you cannot imagine doing anything else. You do what you do because it is the actualization of who you are. It doesn’t matter if it leads to external success or not. You have internally achieved everything you hoped for and you wouldn’t swap it for anything. So, what about you? Are you all over the place? Have you not yet clicked with the activity that seems effortless to you and fully satisfying, or, if you have, do you doubt that you could make a living from it, hence are plagued by doubts and the need to compromise? Life is a great struggle. It crushes almost everyone. Only the world-historic figures survive the Meat Grinder.”
― Thomas Stark, Holenmerism and Nullibism: The Two Faces of the Holographic Universe

“...an actualized poem requires the actualization, or radical transformation, of the poet - that a poem is the discovery and enactment of an emotional and psychological investigation into the vexed interiority of a speaker, that the interior is indeed political - and that every poem, every time, in some miraculous way, must be an argument about the making of poetry itself.”
― Paul Tran, All the Flowers Kneeling

“Shapers are people who can go from visualization to actualization.”
― Ray Dalio, Principles: Life and Work

“Keep on dreaming your better self.”
― Igor Goldkind, Is She Available?

“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”
― Gay Barfield, Politicizing the Person-Centred Approach: An Agenda for Social Change

“Fear of failure is one of the principal fears creating obstacles in the way of successful self-actualization and achieving goals”
― Sunday Adelaja

“Entrepreneurs have the ability to visualize, the courage to verbalize, and the dedication to actualize their dreams.”
― Farshad Asl

“There was something wrong; nobody else had to tell me. Writing it down made me see it. I’d told myself, as if writing to another person.”
― Gina Barreca

“If I am living out a lesser version of myself, I have allowed the fear of ‘who I could be’ to fall prey to the apathy of ‘who I am.’ And if ‘what I could be’ dies the death of cowardice, ‘who I am’ never really lived at all.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“I was a "chaser". Due to rejections I faced as a child or people taking things from me that didn't belong to them, I thought I had to chase things to have it or fight to keep it when all I truly had to do was attract and let go. Essentially....I just had to remember how to be me.”
― Kierra C.T. Banks

“We need to manifest a dominant paradigm for the liberation of people and planet based on mutual care and consideration. And love. We need to reboot our world with a unified vision to achieve this end. In this new zeitgeist, we can come together around creating a world for fully functional, fully integrated, fully realized individuals as the premise for coexistence.”
― Michael Ronin, Modern Masculinity for the Conscious Man: Making Sense in Troubled Times

“Oh how an unimaginable burden on my spirit it has been to reign down hate on you, I will instead update, outwait, outpace you.”
― Renee' A. Lee

“Education is essential for self actualization.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Action controls the direction of success actualization.”
― Daniel ANIKOR

“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

“Writers who see the existential loneliness of man as I see it – as a longing to be dissolved in the subjectivity of God – have written in ways so obscure that I have real doubts whether I can do any better. I am thinking of Kierkegaard, Levinas and Berdyaev, and also of Hegel, in whose shadow they wrote, and whose vision they confirmed by the very vehemence of their attacks on it.

Hegel argued that we self-conscious beings become what we essentially are, through a process of conflict and resolution. Self-consciousness is implanted in us as a condition to be realized, and we acquire it through Entäusserung – through building the public arena in which the dialogue between self and other can occur. The self becomes real through the recognition of the other. Language, institutions, laws are the vehicles through which we achieve Selbstbestimmung, the certainty of self, which is also a limiting of self and a recognition of the boundary between self and other.

The process that leads me to see myself as other to others also makes me other to myself, and this is the ‘moment’, to use Hegel’s language, of self-alienation, in which subjects become strangers to themselves, bound by external laws, hampered in their freedom and in rebellion against the constraints that press on them from outside.

It is in this way that the fatal fracture splits our world – the fracture between subject and object that runs through me. Healing that fracture means reconciling my own view from somewhere with the competing views by which I am surrounded, so that how I am in the eyes of others matches how I am for myself. For Hegel this is achieved objectively through law and institutions, subjectively through art and religion. These are ways in which we re-connect with the world from which our own struggle for freedom and self-knowledge had separated us. Hölderlin expressed some of this in his great invocations of home and homecoming – the journey outwards, which is also a journey back. And Hölderlin’s spiritual journey has been traced in our time, and through a changed emotional geography, by T. S. Eliot in Four Quartets.”
― Roger Scruton, Face of God: The Gifford Lectures

“I want to live my best life, an impactful life, and I know I can, so long as I get out of my way.”
― Andrew Drasen, A Vision of Hope: A Story of Redemption and Purpose