High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.

To love is to see myself in you and to wish to celebrate myself with you. What I love is the embodiment of my values in another person. Love is an act of self-assertion, self-expression and a celebration of being alive.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

A goal without an action plan is a daydream.

Respect starts with ourselves.

To exist without purpose is to be at the mercy of the chance encounter, the chance invitation, the chance phone call, the chance event- always being controlled by forces external to oneself.

The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the need to "prove" ourselves or to forget ourselves by living mechanically and unconsciously.