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.

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.

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.

Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

She took refuge on the firm ground of fiction, through which indeed there curled the blue river of truth.

She’d left him.Without a word. Without a thought. She’d left him and now he hadfeelings.For that alone, he’d never forgive her.

The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.

As a bankrupt thief turns thief-taker in despair so an unsuccessful author turns critic.

In a media-saturated world, persistent hype lends unwarranted credulity to the wildest claims.

Every day, put a little makeup on, put on some nice underwear, and you'll keep your husband.

I always wrote like rock 'n' roll. And I always listen to rock 'n' roll as poetry.

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain.

When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.