The beauty myth of the present is more insidious than any mystique of femininity yet: A century ago, Nora slammed the door of the doll's house; a generation ago, women turned their backs on the consum...
Self-confident people are proud of their accomplishments, but can remain humble without bragging.
Popularity does not equal respect. It is not only kids who will do what they think they must to fit in and be popular—adults do it too.
Even something as simple as ending a sentence with the tone of a question mark rather than a period can diminish a person’s authority and credibility.
Dignity impacts everything in your life. It affects the quality of your internal world for how you see, feel, and think about yourself.
As soon as a woman's primary social value could no longer be defined as the attainment of virtuous domesticity, the beauty myth redefined it as the attainment of virtuous beauty. It did so to substitu...
I realized that I don't want to try to change you in order to be with you. That's not fair to you. And I deserve to share my life with someone who's on the same path as me, and right now, that's not y...
Self confidence. Let's fight the demon that make us look smaller than we truly are. Your dream is worth it.
People build defenses around a weakness, not around strength. Where self-esteem is strong, a defense is unnecessary.
The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.
Creating Identity
In any culture, subculture, or family in which belief is valued above thought, and self-surrender is valued above self-expression, and conformity is valued above integrity, those who preserve their se...
The idea of original sin--of guilt with no possibility of innocence, no freedom of choice, no alternatives--inherently militates against self-esteem. The very notion of guilt without volition or respo...
The key to happiness is loving yourself. For years I have struggled to reach this point and even now at the age of 20 I will be honest in saying I am not 100% there yet. However, I will say I am much...
The feelings of guilt takes away self-confidence, reduces self-esteem welcomes fear, confusion, disappointment, depression etc.
That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pre...
We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significan...
Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated, as Thomas Merton says, by social compulsions. 'Compulsive' is indeed t...
Nurture a balanced perspective and don’t sweat the small stuff.
Likened to still waters run deep, a dignified person is able to call upon their wisdom and experience to discern a situation and expertly navigate it with grace.