Kindle Notes & Highlights
We have to begin to see more clearly, to see what is really important in life.
find our passion, and to search our lives for meaning.
There’s so little that we feel passionate about, so little that brings us joy.
We learn very early that self-esteem is based on others’ approval.
Once you have been the winner, others want to defeat you.
No matter how much you acquired or accomplished, something was always missing….
Our dominant value in this country is money and power, and money and power corrupt.
In our society, we think the route to self-esteem is to be esteemed by others.
The things we consume are like badges saying we are successful.
Maintaining the image of success is the act of denying who you are.
In our effort to be accepted and successful, almost everyone loses touch with what brings true enjoyment.
The major turning point in my life came, as it does for so many, from illness.
the feeling of being valued, of feeling accepted, of being cared
