If we attach more importance to what other people believe than to what we know to be true - if we value belonging over being - we will not attain authenticity.

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.

When your principles seem to be demanding suicide, clearly it's time to check your premises

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

We tend to feel most comfortable, "most at home", with people whose self esteem level resembles our own.

The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.

If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.