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.

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.

The excitement of dreams coming true is beyond the description of words.

Since we all know for a fact that we're all going to die, why don't we all treat each other like we could lose each other at any minute?

Life is full of unfairness but you'll have to deal with it, as long as you're able to take a breath.

Yes, Americans can still get credit for cars and trucks and refrigerators, and those businesses are doing well. But just try to get a home loan now.

What we get in punk these days are layers of 'anti-', and so many of them are so self-serving. It's not about larger freedom.

I appreciate the potato only as a protection against famine, except for that, I know of nothing more eminently tasteless.

Whatever you're feeling is what you're vibrating and what you're vibrating is what you're attracting

It is absolutely necessary that the Christian community be subject in all things to the Sovereign Pontiff if it wishes to be a part of the divinely-established society founded by our Redeemer.

I suggest you leave. Now. (Nykyrian) (The would-be attackers flee.) Had you said ‘boo,’ I think they would have wet themselves. (Kiara)

All great power has to do to destroy itself is persist in trying to do the impossible.