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If You Choose Not To Live Self-responsibly, You Count On Others To Make Up Your Default. No One Abjures Self-responsibility On A Desert Island.

Self Esteem Is The Reputation We Acquire With Ourselves.

For Children Mastery Entails Struggle. This Means They Must Be Permitted To Struggle. If Parents Inappropriately Step In To "help"-out Of Impatience Or Solicitude-they Sabotage Important Learning. Among Other Things, The Child Is Unlikely To Discover The Advantages Of Perseverance And Self-discipline.

For The Rational, Psychologically Healthy Man, The Desire For Pleasure Is The Desire To Celebrate His Control Over Reality. For The Neurotic, The Desire For Pleasure Is The Desire To Escape From Reality.

One Of The Most Significant Characteristics Of Healthy Self Esteem Is That It Is The State Of One Who Is Not At War Either With Himself Or With Others.