psychological need Quotes

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

I'll never, ever be full. I'll always be hungry. Obviously, I'm not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I've never forgotten it, 'Once you've ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you'll never, ever be full.'

Perhaps our imagination needs crime stories to fulfill some craving we have, as a way to assuage a darkness in ourselves.

Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.

And if he left off dreaming about you, where do you suppose you'd be?

I have treated many hundreds of patients. Among those in the second half of life - that is to say, over 35 - there has not been one whose problem in the last resort was not that of finding a religious outlook on life.

The period without the diary remains an ordeal. Every evening I want my diary as one wants opium.

Closure is a neurotic and infantile demand to make upon reality, other people, or language.

One way of reading my life is that I have been in constant search for a father.

All men are wired to be in control of what's going on in their life.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

Homesickness is . . . absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. . . . You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't have, or haven't been able to find.

Work is as much a necessity to man as eating and sleeping. Even those who do nothing that can be called work still imagine they are doing something. The world has not a man who is an idler in his own eyes.

Man needs to suffer. When he does not have real griefs he creates them.

the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.

Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.

True salvation is freedom from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

Motivation is an inner force that compels behavior.

I never even graduated college. I never finished learning, as it were, and I have a psychological need to be in a learning environment at all times.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

The desire for attention has become a primal need along the lines of food, water, and clothing.

he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'.

Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself. Our dreams prove that to imagine--to dream about things that have not happened--is among mankind's deepest needs. Herein lies the danger. If dreams were not beautiful, they would be quickly forgotten.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

when the need is in the mind, you cannot satisfy the need