Your choices have psychological consequences. The way you choose to deal with reality, truth, facts - your choice to honor or dishonor your own perceptions - registers in your mind, for good or for bad, and either confirms and strengthens your self-esteem or undermines and weakens it.

Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality (ed. Simon and Schuster, 1998) - ISBN: 9780684833385