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

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.

We judge us by our names.

The ceilings had set off a ghostly echo, giving all that desperate hilarity the quality of a memory even as I sat listening to it, memories of things I'd never known.

It is a time for soul-searching, a time to see if our anchor holds.

The Empress has been connected with the ideas of universal fecundity and in a general sense with activity.

I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory.

Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters.

You are always factoring in the economy within the process of creating something, and making decisions that seem both fearless and full of fear.

When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by the yard.

It seems like every time I agree to work with a video game company they go out of business. I stopped because I was starting to feel guilty.