We simply must get it through our heads that holding a low opinion of ourselves is not a virtue, but a vice.

The greatest miracle you can hope for is self-acceptance.

You can always find the sun within yourself if you will only search.

Change your mental imagery, and the feelings will take care of themselves.

Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.

When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even deeper emotional wounds are likely to heal faster and cleaner, with no festering sores to poison life and spoil happiness.

Your automatic creative mechanism is teleological. That is, it operates in terms of goals and end results. Once you give it a definite goal to achieve, you can depend upon its automatic guidance system to take you to that goal much better than "you" ever could by conscious thought. "You" supply the goal by thinking in terms of end results. Your automatic mechanism then supplies the means whereby.