Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.

The greater a child’s terror, and the earlier it is experienced, the harder it becomes to develop a strong and healthy sense of self.

Parents need to fill a child’s bucket of self-esteem so high that the rest of the world can’t oke enough holes to drain it dry.

No matter how small you are or feel or think you are–live big. Yours is the only life of you, in this form, the world will ever have!

The line between ego and healthy self-esteem is very delicate. We should know when we cross this line, switch side, and become egotistical.

The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD!

If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.

A life out of balance is a person that doesn’t believe happiness can be achieved now, or in the future. It is as fleeting as the wind.

God made you the way He wanted you to be and He does not make mistakes. He has a plan for your life that is much bigger than you can imagine.

It's all me. I'm not just one flavor. You're not, either. So it all comes down to which 'you' you want to show the world.

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

You have to look in the mirror and do one of two things; love or hate who you see. So, be good to yourself - it's all the esteem you have.

Children need to know that the things that make them vastly different from one another are the very things that make them beautifully special.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Piper had a new entry in her top-ten list of Times Piper Felt Useless. Fighting Shrimpzilla with a dagger and a pretty voice? Not so effective.