What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

Your life is important. Fight for it. Honour your highest potentials.

Self-acceptance is my refusal to be in an adversarial relationship to myself.

Accepting does not necessarily mean liking, enjoying, condoning. I can accept what is-and be determined to evolve from there. It is not acceptance but denial that leaves me stuck.

A woman in love will do almost anything for a man, except give up the desire to improve him.

A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.

We are anxious when there is a dissonance between our "knowledge" and the perceivable facts. Since our "knowledge" is not to be doubted or questioned, it is the facts that have to be altered.