The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.

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

Stressing the practice of living purposefully as essential to fully realized self-esteem is not equivalent to measuring an individual's worth by his or her external achievements. We admire achievements-in ourselves and others-and it is natural and appropriate for us to do so. But that is not the same thing as saying that our achievements are the measure or grounds of our self-esteem. The root of our self-esteem is not our achievements but those internally generated practices that, among other things, make it possible for us to achieve.

Integrity is congruence between what you know, what you profess, and what you do.

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

If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

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.