27 Quotes by Terrence Real

Self-esteem is your capacity to recognize your worth and value, despite your human flaws and weaknesses. Your value as a person isn't earned; it isn't conditional; it can't be added to or subtracted from. Your essential worth is neither greater nor lesser than that of any other human being. It can't be. Self-esteem is about being, not doing. You have worth simply because you're alive.

Revenge is really a perverse form of communication, a twisted attempt at repair.

We are so busy attempting to manage the result that we fail simply to run the race.

Men are not raised to be intimate, they're raised to be competitive performers...

Traditional socialization teaches young boys to filter their sense of self-worth through performance.

The paradox for boys is that in order to be worthy of connection they must prove themselves invulnerable, button down warriors in the world's emotional market place.

In the world of boys and men you're either a winner or a loser, one up or one down in control or controlled, man enough or a girl.

Where in this set up is the capacity for love?

...strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.