Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

We must become what we wish to teach.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.

Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem, and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence - and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

Productive achievement is a consequence and an expression of health and self-esteem, not its cause.

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

When I was a child, I felt at times that I had been born into an insane asylum, that much of human life appeared to be an insane asylum. It was bewildering.

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. . .I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.

He that would live in peace & at ease, Must not speak all he knows or judge all he sees.

Life is a verb, not a noun.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

People who come up through life or literature the hard way must inevitably carry their scars with them into composition.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

We stopped looking for monsters under our bed when we realized that they were inside us.

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