To live consciously means to seek to be aware of everything that bears on our actions, purposes, values, and goals—to the best of our ability, whatever that ability may be—and to behave in accordance with that which we see and know.

Integrity means congruence. Words and behavior match.

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

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

The greatest barrier to achievement and success is not lack of talent or ability but rather the feeling that achievement and success, above a certain level, are outside our self-concept-our image of who we are and what is appropriate to us.

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

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