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

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

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

One of the hardest expressions of self-assertiveness is challenging your limiting beliefs.

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

If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You are moving out into life rather than contracting and withdrawing.

Live with integrity, respect the rights of other people, and follow your own bliss.

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

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.

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.

He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit...

White people don't sing together very often, and when they do, it's about the celebrity of the song. The singing at my shows is all about harmony.

Home is the place that'll catch you when you fall. And we all fall.

Individual faults and frailties are no excuse to give in - and no exemption from the common obligation to give of ourselves.

I have a lot of hobbies and I can be very remiss in reminding myself to go down to the basement to work.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

More than a rejection or dissolution of the past, avant-garde originality is conceived as a literal origin, a beginning from ground zero, a birth.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.