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

How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.

The ultimate test of our integrity is not how we deal with those whom we agree but how we deal with those who we do not agree.

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.

Suppose you feel you cannot accept some fact about yourself. Then own your refusal to accept. Own the block. Embrace it fully. And watch it begin to disappear. The principal is this: Begin where you are-accept that. Then change and growth become possible.

The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'

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