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No one is coming to save you.
Feel deeply to think clearly.
Respect starts with ourselves.
We must become what we wish to teach.
The world belongs to those who persevere.
Do not marry the enemy of your excitement.
A goal without an action plan is a daydream.
Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.
Freedom is still the most radical idea of all.
An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.
Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.
Sometimes pain is easier to bear alone than happiness.
Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
Self-esteem is not a luxury; it is a profound spiritual need.
Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.
Be careful what you say to your children. They may agree with you.
I have to respect other's opinions even if I don't agree with them.
Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials.
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.
Our motive is not to prove our self-worth, but to live up to our possibilities.
It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself.
The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.
Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.
Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.
Capitalism, by its nature, entails a constant process of motion, growth and progress.
A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.
For "I" to become "we" and yet remain "I," is one of the great challenges of marriage.
Fear and pain should be treated as signals not to close our eyes but to open them wider.
One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.
It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.
When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises
A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.
To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.
A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.
What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.
The lies most devastating to our self-esteem are not so much the lies we tell as the lies we live.
When people are not accepting toward themselves they are often obsessed with acceptance by others.
Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.
Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure
Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"
If we do not believe in ourselves- neither in our efficacy nor in our goodness- the universe is a frightening place.
The desire for self-esteem without integrity is like the desire for wealth without effort-a longing for the unearned.
The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
Most of the time, I regard the judgment of people as a waste of time. I regard the judgment of behavior as imperative.
Fully to surrender to love can be terrifying. But it is the price life asks in exchange for the possibility of ecstasy.
It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.
Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.