A well-developed sense of self is a necessary if not sufficient condition of your well-being. Its presence does not guarantee fulfillment, but its absence guarantees some measure of anxiety, frustration, or despair.

A commitment to lifelong learning is a natural expression of the practice of living consciously.

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?

What is guilt? It is moral self-reproach-I did wrong when it was possible to have done otherwise.

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

The ultimate test of our integrity is not how we deal with those whom we agree but how we deal with those who we do not agree.

Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.