"There's a lot of talk about self-esteem these days. It seems pretty basic to me. If you eat to feel proud of yourself, you've got to do things you can be proud of. Feelings follow actions."

-- Oseola McCarty

#Self Esteem Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Proud Quotes

“We should like Nature to go no further; we should like it to be finite, like our mind; but this is to ignore the greatness and majesty of the Author of things.”
“Victory has 1,000 fathers; defeat has 1,000 kibitzers.”
“The Republicansâ€™ plan is that if they canâ€™t buy the 2012 election they will steal it.”
“I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.”
“Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.”
“Well, harpsichord is kind of a big guitar, isn't it? I mean, it is plucked, after all.”
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous.”
“I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to. In my work as a psychologist, I am reminded every day of how infrequently we are heard, any of us, or our actions even marginally understood. And one of the ironies of my "listening profession" is its lesson that, in many ways, each of us ultimately remains a mystery to everyone else.”

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