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Self-esteem has two interrelated components. One is a sense of basic confidence in the face of life’s challenges: self-efficacy. The other is a sense of being worthy of happiness: self-respect.
Self-efficacy means confidence in the functioning of my mind, in my ability to think, understand, learn, choose, and make decisions; confi- dence in my ability to understand the facts of reality that fall within the sphere of my interests and needs; self-trust; self-reliance.
Self-respect means assurance of my value; an affirmative attitude to- ward my right to live and to be happy; comfort in appropriately asserting my thoughts, wants, and needs; the feeling that joy and fulfillment are my natural birthright.
- Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self Esteem (via intp-justice)
"You’ve been through this before and you can definitely go through it again."
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"You couldn’t relive your life, skipping the awful parts, without losing what made it worthwhile. You had to accept it as a whole—like the world, or the person you loved."
- Stewart O’Nan, The Odds: A Love Story (via feellng)
"Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do."
- Bob Dylan (via hollowstimulation)
