Accepting Does Not Necessarily Mean

Most Of The Time, I Regard The Judgment Of People As A Waste Of Time. I Regard The Judgment Of Behavior As Imperative.

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 Does Not Make The Unreal Real Or The Real Unreal; That It Is Better To Correct Your Mistakes That To Pretend They Do Not Exist; And That The More Conscious You Are Of Facts Bearing On Your Life And Goals, The More Wisely And Effectively You Can Act.

You Have A Right To Your Feelings. Your Feelings Are There To Tell You Something, But They Are Not Infallible Guides To Behavior.

There Is No Value-judgment More Important To A Man--no Factor More Decisive In His Psychological Development And Motivation--than The Estimate He Passes On Himself.

Stressing The Practice Of Living Purposefully As Essential To Fully Realized Self-esteem Is Not Equivalent To Measuring An Individual's Worth By His Or Her External Achievements. We Admire Achievements-in Ourselves And Others-and It Is Natural And Appropriate For Us To Do So. But That Is Not The Same Thing As Saying That Our Achievements Are The Measure Or Grounds Of Our Self-esteem. The Root Of Our Self-esteem Is Not Our Achievements But Those Internally Generated Practices That, Among Other Things, Make It Possible For Us To Achieve.