Be independent of the good opinion of other people.

The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.

A positive self image and healthy self esteem is based on approval, acceptance and recognition from others; but also upon actual accomplishments, achievements and success upon the realistic self confidence which ensues.

Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization.

The chicken came first - God would look silly sitting on an egg.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.