Your life is important. Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for your highest potential. Self-realizatio n-the realization of the best within you-is the noblest goal of your existence.

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

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

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

Anyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love you.

It is true that people are sometimes hit by adversities beyond their control. But those so affected are better helped when they are awakened to the resources they do possess than when they are told they don't have any.

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.'