Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"

One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.

Every day, it's important to ask and answer these questions: "What's good in my life?" and "What needs to be done?"

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.

Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.

When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.

It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems, who may be alienated from many aspects of the self-but who is still fighting, still struggling, still striving to find the path to a fulfilling existence, moved by the wisdom of knowing, "I am more than my problems."