Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender -not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.

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

Reason and emotion are not antagonists. What seems like a struggle between two opposing ideas or values, one of which, automatic and unconscious, manifests itself in the form of a feeling.