Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault..

Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Beca….

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in w….

Apologies do make a difference. Believe it or not, research shows people often prefer them over money..

Can you predict the future with absolute certainty? Your answer must be no. You have two options: You can either decide to accept yourself as an impe….

The biggest mistake you can make in trying to talk convincingly is to put your highest priority on expressing your ideas and feelings. What most peop….

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of..

A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat..

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true..

You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human..

Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad..

You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's o….

You feel the way you do right now because of the thoughts you are thinking at this moment..

Cognitive therapy is based on the idea that when you change the way you think, you can change the way you feel and behave. In other words, if we can ….

Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay..

Kindness is the cause of all anxiety..

Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you ar….

After all, this is how you learned how to walk. You didn't just jump up from your crib one day and waltz gracefully across the room. You stumbled and….

You don't have to do anything especially worthy to create or deserve self-esteem; all you have to do is turn off that critical, haranguing, inner voi….

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person..

If you're self-compassionate, you'll tend to have higher self-esteem than if you're endlessly self-critical. And like high self-esteem - self-compass….