If you want to be proud of yourself, then do things in which you can take pride

There is no good reason why we should not develop and change until the last day we live.

Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

To find a mountain path all by oneself gives a greater feeling of strength than to take a path that is shown.

We may feel genuinely concerned about world conditions, though such a concern should drive us into action and not into a depression.

If I couldn't be pretty, I decided I would be smart.

Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.