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.
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The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
The criterion of truth is that it works even if nobody is prepared to acknowledge it.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.
To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is read more
To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.
The classes and the masses.
The classes and the masses.
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.
The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.
The real death of America will come when everyone is alike.
Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
thousand.
Those families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten
thousand.
There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can read more
There is nothing to be found in a beehive that is not submerged in a bee. And yet you can search a bee forever with cyclotron and fluoroscope, and you will never find the hive.
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
The supreme irony of life is that no one gets out of it alive.
