Don't despise people because of their defects or because of their lack of talents and gifts. Imagine if people did it for you, how many friends would you be left with?

Honour, like insult, comes from others. It is their recognition of our worth. It is the intrusion of the social into the psychological, the public into the private. After all, others honour us for what they find of worth in us. ‘To pursue [honour],’ wrote Baruch Spinoza in Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect (1677), ‘we must direct our lives according to other men’s powers of understanding, fleeing what they commonly flee and seeking what they commonly seek.’ So what we come to think of as worthwhile in ourselves is bound to have as a large component what others think to be worthwhile in us.

Liking me is optional. . .Respecting me is not!

Not obedience or feelings or respect, there is only one thing which people take seriously at all time and its 'money'.

Individuals set boundaries to feel safe, respected, and heard.

Positive self-esteem must be preceded by self-respect. To get self-respect you have to do something good.

Happiness is ours for the taking and take it we must without any apologies. We deserve to be happy, loved, and respected......Nothing less.

I would be dreadfully remiss not to think that God would painstakingly craft something an intimately ingenious and inexplicably intricate as my life, and that by virtue of such sheer brilliance I should not examine it with the greatest precision and unleash it with the fullest abandon.

The important thing to remember, ... Is that you are a human being and worthy of respect.

Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you but it can not defeat you.