Persons of high self-esteem are not driven to make themselves superior to others; they do not seek to prove their value by measuring themselves against a comparative standard. Their joy is being who they are, not in being better than someone else.


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Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the sam...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will s...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden e...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Every individual has a place to fill in the world, and is important, in some respect, whether he cho...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a sym...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, with...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
What we call real estate--the solid ground to build a house on--is the broad foundation on which ne...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Every crime destroys more Edens than our own.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with thei...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Is it a fact -- or have I dreamt it -- that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; ...
NATHANIEL COTTON
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you wi...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save th...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battl...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
I had a great AP U.S. History teacher in Pittsburgh. We still exchange Christmas cards. She was the ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's s...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never...
NATHANIEL KAHN
We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
NATHANIEL LEE
When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a ...
NATHANIEL RATELIFF
Unfortunately, we have a tendency to see figures from the past as caricatures - either all good or a...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
There was a listlessness in his gait, as if he saw no reason for taking one step further, nor felt a...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it le...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random ...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
Washington worked very hard to create his legacy. Even before the War of Independence was over, he w...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
Love, whether newly born, or aroused from a deathlike slumber, must always create sunshine, filling ...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
It is impossible to say when 37-year-old Benedict Arnold first met 18-year-old Peggy Shippen, but we...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an Eng...
NATHANIEL PHILBRICK
A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one tha...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE