You yourself are more deserving of your loving kindness than anyone you can search out.
Self-Esteem Test:
What do you see first in the following letters: (There are 2 answers)
IAMNOWHERE (i am nowhere; i am now here)
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. – Eleanor Roosevelt
Think about yourself and give others the privilege of doing so.
STEPS TO HAPPINESS:
You can’t be all things to all people.
You can’t do all things at once.
You can’t do all things equally well.
You can’t do all things better than everyone else.
Your humanity is showing just like everyone else’s.
So:
You have to find out who you are, and be that.
You have to decide what comes first, and do that.
You have to discover your strengths, and use them.
You have to learn not to compete with others,
Because no one else is in the contest of *being you*.
Then:
You will have learned to accept your own uniqueness.
You will have learned to set priorities and make decisions.
You will have learned to live with your limitations.
You will have learned to give yourself the respect that is due.
And you’ll be a most vital mortal.
Dare To Believe:
That you are a wonderful, unique person.
That you are a once-in-all-history event.
That it’s more than a right, it’s your duty, to be who you are.
That life is not a problem to solve, but a gift to cherish.
And you’ll be able to stay one up on what used to get you down.
Guilt is the only emotion that we teach.
Be Yourself. – Bobby Ross, Coach, Lions
Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. – Malcom Forbes
Occasionally, it’s a good idea to blow your own horn. Otherwise, someone else may start using it as a spittoon!
The most important thought you can ever hold is: Your life matters. – David McNally
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances – to choose one’s own way. – Victor Frankl
No one can make me feel inferior but myself. – Eleanor Roosevelt
SELF-ESTEEM controls PERFORMANCE/REALITY which stimulate SELF-TALK which reinforces SELF-ESTEEM. This cycle can work positively or negatively and is greatly influenced by the self-talk (“I knew I wasn’t good at –” vs “next time I’ll practice and do better at –“).
Remember that what pulls the strings is the force hidden within; there lies the power to persuade, there the life – there, if one must speak out, the real man. – Marcus Aurelius (Roman emperor)
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got. – Janis Joplin (strangely good quote from someone who died from a drug overdose)
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Deficiency motivation doesn’t work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of “Try to fix me.” Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are. – Wayne Dyer
90% of who you are you can’t touch, feel or smell.
If I am what I have
And if I lose what I have
Who then am I?
– Eric Fromm
What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you. – Wayne Dyer
Some people who think that everything is a nail, are down on themselves because they are not a hammer. They tend to deprecate their own unique talents and capacities to use a chisel or a pair of pliers.
Self-worth comes from one thing – thinking that you are worthy. – Wayne Dyer
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. – Walt Disney
When the fight begins within himself, a man’s worth something. – Robert Browning
If you have your sight, you are blessed. If you have insight, you are a thousand times blessed.
In times of storm, the shallowness of the root structure is revealed.
