#self-esteem

"The more we see ourselves as a vibrant, successful, inspiring person who boldly declares and manifests her vision, the more we become just that."

"Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true."

"For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them."

"Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice."

"Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone."

"Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected."

"My dear Watson,"said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers."

"How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves."

"In your own life it's important to know how spectacular you are."

"A good self-esteem level is mostly dependant on how we value ourselves without any bias."

"If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem."

"I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you."

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself."

"The first place where self-esteem begins its journey is within us."

"Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world."

"Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want."

"She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply say I am without adding a this, or a that, without saying I am Indian, Guyanese, English, or anything else in the world."

"The world’s greatest achievers have been those who have always stayed focussed on their goals and have been consistent in their efforts."

"As an author, I like self-help, because clapping can be done by myself, for myself. I should buy gloves."

"What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?"