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

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.

The natural inclination of a child is to take pleasure in the use of the mind no less than of the body. The child's primary business is learning. It is also the primary entertainment. To retain that orientation into adulthood, so that consciousness is not a burden but a joy, is the mark of the successfully developed human being.

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"

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

Of all the judgments you make in life, none is as important as the one you make about yourself. The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem is the difference between passivity and action, between failure and success.

Either you will make your life work, or your life will not work.