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- 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.
- One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure - a willingness to let our partner enter…
- It would be hard to name a more certain sign of poor self-esteem than the need to perceive some other group as inferior.
- Living consciously reflects the conviction that sight is preferable to blindness; that respecting the facts of reality is more satisfying than denying them; that evasion…
- Most of us are taught from an early age to pay far more attention to signals coming from other people than from within. We are…
- Individualism is at once an ethical-psychological concept and an ethical-political one. As an ethical-psychological concept, individualism holds that a human being should think and judge…
- The more you surrender to the fear of someone's disapproval, the more you lose face in your own eyes, and the more desperate you become…
- If you bring five percent more awareness to your work tomorrow, or to your most important relationship, what might you do differently? Are you willing…
- Doing more of what doesn't work doesn't work.
- It is impressive to see a person who has been battered by life in many ways, who is torn by a variety of unsolved problems,…
- I believe that earning your living doing something you enjoy is one of the very best ways to nourish yourself. But even if you are…
- Out of fear, out of the desire for approval, out of the misguided notions of duty, people surrender themselves-their convictions and their aspirations-every day. There…
- We do not hear the term compassionate applied to business executives or entrepreneurs, certainly not when they are engaged in their normal work. Yet in…
- Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their…
- Positive self-esteem operates as, in effect, the immune system of the consciousness, providing resistance, strength, and a capacity for regeneration. When self-esteem is low, our…
- Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.
- The higher our self-esteem, the stronger the drive to express ourselves, reflecting the sense of richness within. The lower our self-esteem, the more urgent the…
- Of all the nonsense written about love, none is more absurd than the notion that ideal love is selfless. To love is to see myself…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
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- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle