Respect Starts With Ourselves.

Some People Stand And Move As If They Have No Right To The Space They Occupy. They Wonder Why Others Often Fail To Treat Them With Respect-not Realizing That They Have Signaled Others That It Is Not Necessary To Treat Them With Respect.

You Can Be Loved By Your Family, Your Mate, And Your Friends Yet Not Love Yourself. You Can Be Admired By Your Associates Yet Regard Yourself As Worthless. You Can Project An Image Of Assurance And Poise That Fools Almost Everyone Yet Secretly Tremble With A Sense Of Inadequacy. You Can Fulfill The Expectations Of Others Yet Fail Your Own. You Can Win Every Honor Yet Feel That You Have Accomplished Nothing. What Shall It Profit A Person To Gain The Esteem Of The Whole World Yet Lose His Or Her Own?

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.

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

If My Aim Is To Prove I Am 'enough,' The Project Goes On To Infinity-because The Battle Was Already Lost On The Day I Conceded The Issue Was Debatable.