One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities.

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.

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

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

The peaker learns surely and certainly that life can be worthwhile, that it can be beautiful and valuable. There are ends in life, i.e., experiences which are so precious in themselves as to prove that not everything is a means to some end other than itself.

We must remember that knowledge of one’s own deep nature is also simultaneously knowledge of human nature in general.

Become aware of internal, subjective, subverbal experiences, so that these experiences can be brought into the world of abstraction, of conversation, of naming, etc. with the consequence that it immediately becomes possible for a certain amount of control to be exerted over these hitherto unconscious and uncontrollable processes.