Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?

Brigham Young

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You don't need any methods to get rid of the wrong ideas you have about yourself. All you have to do is stop believing them. The best way to do this is to replace them with ideas that more accurately reflect the real state of affairs.

Annamalai Swami

As you face loss, frustration, hurt, and conflict….have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion.

Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

If you're afraid to do something in a social setting, it is because you are more invested in someone else's opinion of you than you are in your own opinion of yourself.

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