Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. And happiness requires, not surrender to guilt, but emancipation from guilt.

Your life is important. Whether you achieve what you want in life matters. Whether you are happy matters. Honor and fight for your highest potential. Self-realizatio n-the realization of the best within you-is the noblest goal of your existence.

In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.

Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are encouraged to ignore our own needs and wants and to concentrate on living up to others expectations.

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