“This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.”
Brenda Ueland
“Most people with low self-esteem have earned it”
George Carlin
“I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got.”
Sabrina Ward Harrison
“Whoever despises himself still esteems the despiser within himself”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily...”
Thomas S. Szasz
“Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.”
Lao Tzu
