Integrity Means Congruence. Words And Behavior Match.

I Believe That Earning Your Living Doing Something You Enjoy Is One Of The Very Best Ways To Nourish Yourself. But Even If You Are Employed At Something That Is Not Your Ideal Work, It Is Important To Find Ways To Take As Much Pleasure In It As Possible. Living In The Present Moment Can Make Ordinary Activities More Interesting And Joyful; You May Be Surprised, If You Only Look, At What You Will Find. If You Try To Stay Connected With Why You Are Doing What You Are Doing, For Example, Then Even The Parts Of Your Life That Aren't Especially Interesting Can Become More Meaningful.

Romantic Love Is A Passionate Spiritual-emotional-sexual Attachment Between A Man And A Woman That Reflects A High Regard For The Value Of Each Other's Person.

To Trust One's Mind And To Know That One Is Worthy Of Happiness Is The Essence Of Self-esteem.

If You Are Terrified Of Making Mistakes, You Will Be Reluctant To Acknowledge Them When You Do Make Them-and Therefore You Will Not Correct Them.

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.