Your Life Is Important. Fight For It.

It's Not That Achievements Prove Our Worth But Rather That The Process Of Achieving Is The Means By Which We Develop Our Effectiveness, Our Competence At Living.

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.

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.

What Is Guilt? It Is Moral Self-reproach-i Did Wrong When It Was Possible To Have Done Otherwise.

Whether In The Workplace Or In Personal Relationships, Success Belongs To Those Who Are Willing To Take Responsibility For Attaining Their Desires-those Who Respond To Life Actively Rather Than Passively.