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

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

You can be loved by your family, your mate, and your friends yet not love yourself. You can be admired by your associates yet regard yourself as worthless. You can project an image of assurance and poise that fools almost everyone yet secretly tremble with a sense of inadequacy. You can fulfill the expectations of others yet fail your own. You can win every honor yet feel that you have accomplished nothing. What shall it profit a person to gain the esteem of the whole world yet lose his or her own?

If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.

To trust one's mind and to know that one is worthy of happiness is the essence of self-esteem.

An emotion is both a mental and a physical event.

Do not marry the enemy of your excitement.