Return to Your Self 

How are you to get back to your self, to get home without delay? The intensity of your wanting to get back is the first thing. If you have been shivering in the cold, you won't simply sit there and knock. When you have recognised the truth, that you need to get through the door, the very first step, the first qualification, is passion to get to the center.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Self-esteem is feeling worthy and able to meet life's challenges. It comes from the depths of our core, yet it is reflected in every single outward action we take, grand or small. It is the essence from which we measure our worth and the most important building block in the foundation of our psyches.

Cherie Carter-Scott

When you'r shown disregard, check yourself. If you've done nothing wrong, and your attitude is well-meaning, understand the situation as a test of your ability to remain beyond the judgment of others.

Dadi Janki

Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.

Bertrand Russel

Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows.

Thorstein Veblen

The questions which one ask oneself begin, at last, to illuminate the world, and become one's key to the experience of others.

James Baldwin

No person loving or admiring himself is alone.

Theodore Reik