Feel Deeply To Think Clearly.

To Attain "success" Without Attaining Positive Self-esteem Is To Be Condemned To Feeling Like An Imposter Anxiously Awaiting Exposure.

Reason And Emotion Are Not Antagonists. What Seems Like A Struggle Between Two Opposing Ideas Or Values, One Of Which, Automatic And Unconscious, Manifests Itself In The Form Of A Feeling.

We Do Not Hear The Term Compassionate Applied To Business Executives Or Entrepreneurs, Certainly Not When They Are Engaged In Their Normal Work. Yet In Terms Of Results In The Measurable Form Of Jobs Created, Lives Enriched, Communities Built, Living Standards Raised, And Poverty Healed, A Handful Of Capitalists Has Done Infinitely More For Mankind Than All The Self-serving Politicians, Academics, Social Workers, And Religionists Who March Under The Banner Of Compassion.

Self-acceptance Is My Refusal To Be In An Adversarial Relationship To Myself.

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.