If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have to believe that you are capable of making it happen. Whether you call it self-esteem, self-confidence or self-assurance, it...

As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To demand it is to claim that your life is his property – and...

You are not the family you were born into. Your family is not the making of you, God is!

What you make of yourself and your future is entirely up to you.

As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young...

Even with the Boy Scouts admitting openly gay youths, its exclusion of LGBT adults teaches our children by example what the organization really thinks about them — and what they should think about themselves.

Never rate yourself too low; you will be whoever you think you can be provided you are willing to pay the price!

I don’t know why, but people seem to be fascinated to learn how some members of society fall through the cracks. I think it’s partly that feeling that… it could happen to anyone. But I...

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I’m Harry Potter.

As far as you can see then you can go. The question is what do you see and how far do you see yourself. Thoughts are as harmless and dangerous they can be. Any person...

May grace abound as you walk in the path of light.

He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it’s because he never quite felt that...

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.

Just because your feet are on the ground, doesn’t mean you weren’t born to fly.

When our emotional health is in a bad state, so is our level of self-esteem. We have to slow down and deal with what is troubling us, so that we can enjoy the simple joy...

A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn’t implement any of it.

Recognize that you have been chosen to be alive, right now, at this exact moment in time and know that none of that is random. There is something about you, your past or your future...

If you don’t love yourself it’s tough to love anything about your life. Appreciating who you are is essential to your happiness.

Style comes from knowing who you are and who you want to be in the world; it does not come from wanting to be somebody else, or wanting to be thinner, shorter, taller, prettier.

Life ups the self-esteem of a low-paid man by giving him things that the high-paid man that he envies cannot buy (intellect, looks, sex appeal, etc.).

The three most important words in a relationship are not, ‘I love you,’ but, ‘Tell me more.

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he...

Why all this deference to Alfred, and Scanderbeg, and Gustavus? Suppose they were virtuous; did they wear out virtue?

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

Was I still myself? If so, who was I? I wasn’t really interested in knowing that. It had no sort of importance for me anymore. Some moorings had broken, some taboos had fallen, and a...

Feeling indifferent or reserved about doing something is a signal that it is probably not correct after all.

In spite of her plainness that would have made wallflowers of other women, she radiated a great sense of self-importance.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

People pleasing doesn’t allow you to receive.

You’ve got to know thyself, date thyself and most importantly be thyself.

Kissinger projects a strong impression of a man at home in the world and on top of his brief. But there are a number of occasions when it suits him to pose as a sort...

bigger” (that is, more powerful and significant) than God, and, out of the fear that creates in us, we give other people the power and right to tell us what to feel, think, and do.

The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.

The feelings is both the biggest poison and the greatest remedy. The wisdom and good sense define the best use.

I try not to let other people’s problems problem me.

At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.

You think it’s so easy to change yourself. You think it’s so easy, but it’s not True, things don’t stay the same forever: couches are replaced, boys leave, you discover a song, your body becomes...

It is well understood in psychology that the subconscious mind has the dominant influence on human decision making, and therefore the pivotal role of the subconscious, for you to achieve success, is inescapable.

The opposite of self-assertiveness is self-abnegation–abandoning or submerging your personal values, judgment, and interests. Some people tell themselves this is a virtue. It is a “virtue” that corrodes self-esteem.

Smile: Happiness Is Right Under Your Nose!

Sooo, I’m tired of people thinking I’m a freak. I know you can’t relate to that but -“”Get over it already, will ya?” Candace stood. “You’re not Smellody anymore. You’re pretty. You can get hot...

Do not share your thoughts with people who think that what you are thinking is not worth thinking.

Self-esteem wasn’t the issue for my parents or their parents. Survival was their primary goal.

Some people only hate you because of the way other people love you.

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don’t do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped...

The diet industry is making a lot of money selling us fad diets, nonfat foods full of chemicals, gym memberships, and pills while we lose a piece of our self-esteem every time we fail another...

I don’t know anyone who remembers meeting their parents when they were a baby so i’m just like everybody else. -Zoey (100% Real)

To lose confidence in one’s body is to lose confidence in oneself.

I exist as I am, that is enough,If no other in the world be aware I sit content,And if each and all be aware I sit content.One world is aware, and by the far the...

Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless. Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.