Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

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

It is very difficult to accept in others emotions you cannot accept in yourself.

Self-respecting men and women think about the consequences of their actions-and are willing to take responsibility for them.

When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.