To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

Most people with low self-esteem have earned it

All neurotic symptoms have as their object the task of safeguarding the patient's self-esteem and thereby also the lifeline into which he has grown.

Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it

Every major life decision I made came from my pain, guilt and shame...even down to the man I chose for a husband.