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High self esteem people can surely be knocked down by an excess of troubles, but they are quickerto pick themselves up again.
The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract.
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.
The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges.
Neurogenesis continues throughout life and we have the capacity to establish new neural pathways and strengthen existing ones.
Anyone who really loves you wants you to be authentic. And anyone who doesn't want you to be authentic doesn't really love you.
We are used to thinking in terms of what we can teach our children. Maybe we need to ask ourselves what we may learn from them.
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Distorted history boasts of bellicose glory... and seduces the souls of boys to seek mystical bliss in bloodshed and in battles.
Violence as a way of gaining power... is being camouflaged under the guise of tradition, national honor [and] national security.
The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.
I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers.
You have a right to your feelings. Your feelings are there to tell you something, but they are not infallible guides to behavior.
The insistence that the commercialisation of the body is a fit subject for political discussion and intervention is well overdue.
Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!
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.
To attain "success" without attaining positive self-esteem is to be condemned to feeling like an imposter anxiously awaiting exposure.
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
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.
The United States was the first country in the history of the world to be consciously created out of an idea - and the idea was liberty.
If you face life without confidence in your own powers, you succumb too easily to setbacks and adversity; you lack the will to persevere.
Two brains are better than one. You've twice the brain capacity and you have two sets of experiences and genes to bring to any challenge.
The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told: 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness.'
From a child's point of view, there is rarely a great time for parents to separate, even if there has been a lot of commotion and fighting.
As you grow in self-esteem, your face, manner, way of talking and moving will tend naturally to project the pleasure you take in being alive.
Mothers unconsciously allow more latitude to sons, and open encouragement, and with daughters they treat them as they would treat themselves.
In my mum's day, you needed to be beautiful for a very short time to catch your man. It didn't start at six and go on until you're 75, right?
A depression is a large-scale decline in production and trade...there is nothing in the nature of a free-market economy to cause such an event.
If you choose not to live self-responsibly, you count on others to make up your default. No one abjures self-responsibility on a desert island.
You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.
If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.
If you wish to educate a child who has gone wrong, then you must, above all, keep your attention fixed on the intersection of two charmed circles.
You have the right to your own ideas and opinions, to make your own decisions, and to have things go your way at times. Stand up for those rights.
When we bury our feelings, we also bury ourselves. It means we exist in a state of alienation. We rarely know it, but we are lonely for ourselves.
Self-esteem is a powerful force within each of us... Self-esteem is the experience that we are appropriate to life and to the requirements of life.
To injure another person through atonement is one of the most subtle devices of the neurotic, as when, for example, he indulges in self-accusations.
If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.
The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.
Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
A productive purpose to which you give yourself fully and joyfully is one of the great adventures of life. It is a uniquely human source of happiness.
After a stroke we can re-learn how to talk, because by practicing we can establish different pathways in the brain, circumnavigating the damaged part.
When they took TV to Fiji they found that after 3 years nearly 12 girls out of 100 were over the toilet bowls with bulimia because they felt inferior.
If my aim is to prove I am 'enough,' the project goes on to infinity-because the battle was already lost on the day I conceded the issue was debatable.
One of the most significant characteristics of healthy self esteem is that it is the state of one who is not at war either with himself or with others.
If we are happy within ourselves, we don't accept or demand that our partner should fulfill every need. We need to be comfortable with our own company.
A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.
The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.
Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.
How do we nurture the soul? By revering our own life. By learning to love it all, not only the joys and the victories, but also the pain and the struggles.