Integrity Means Congruence. Words And Behavior Match.

It Is Naive To Think That Self-assertiveness Is Easy. To Live Self-assertively--which Means To Live Authentically--is An Act Of High Courage. That Is Why So Many People Spend The Better Part Of Their Lives In Hiding--from Others And Also From Themselves.

Self-acceptance Is My Refusal To Be In An Adversarial Relationship To Myself.

You Have A Right To Your Feelings. Your Feelings Are There To Tell You Something, But They Are Not Infallible Guides To Behavior.

If We Attach More Importance To What Other People Believe Than To What We Know To Be True - If We Value Belonging Over Being - We Will Not Attain Authenticity.

The Lies Most Devastating To Our Self-esteem Are Not So Much The Lies We Tell As The Lies We Live.