A Commitment To Lifelong Learning

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 For Someone's Approval. Within You Is A Void That Should Have Been Filled By Self-esteem. When You Attempt To Fill It With The Approval Of Others Instead, The Void Grows Deeper And The Hunger For Acceptance And Approval Grows Stronger. The Only Solution Is To Summon The Courage To Honor Your Own Judgment, Frightening Though That May Be In The Beginning.

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.

To Trust One's Mind And To Know That One Is Worthy Of Happiness Is The Essence Of Self-esteem.

Our Motive Is Not To Prove Our Self-worth, But To Live Up To Our Possibilities.

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 Independently, Respecting Nothing More Than The Sovereignty Of His Or Her Mind; Thus, It Is Intimately Connected With The Concept Of Autonomy. As An Ethical-political Concept, Individualism Upholds The Supremacy Of Individual Rights