To Exist Without Purpose Is To Be

It Is Very Difficult To Accept In Others Emotions You Cannot Accept In Yourself.

The Highest Compliment One Can Be Paid By Another Human Being Is To Be Told: 'because Of What You Are, You Are Essential To My Happiness.'

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.

Positive Self-esteem Operates As, In Effect, The Immune System Of The Consciousness, Providing Resistance, Strength, And A Capacity For Regeneration. When Self-esteem Is Low, Our Resilience In The Face Of Life's Adversities Is Diminished. We Crumble Before Vicissitudes That A Healthier Sense Of Self Could Vanquish. We Tend To Be More Influenced By The Desire To Avoid Pain Than To Experience Joy. Negatives Have More Power Over Us Than Positives.

For "i" To Become "we" And Yet Remain "i," Is One Of The Great Challenges Of Marriage.