All of us are much more human than otherwise

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate.

Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along.

It is easier to act yourself into a new way of feeling than to feel yourself into a new way of acting.

All of us are much more human than otherwise

As you love yourself, so shall you love others. Strange but true, with no exceptions.

[O]ne of the greatest difficulties encountered in bringing about favorable change is this almost inescapable illusion that there is a perduring, unique, simple existent self, [which is] in some strange fashion, the patient's, or the subject person's, private property.