Quotes About Self-worth

I didn't need the belt to validate me.

Shame internalized can lead to agony.

She chuckled to herself, pressed send, and wandered around the airport for half an hour, sporadically checking Twitter. "I got nothing," she told me. "No replies." I imagined her feeling a bit deflated about this—that sad feeling when nobody congratulates you for being funny, that black silence when the Internet doesn't talk back.

Why?" I asked, "What are you looking for?" There was a short silence. And Toto softly said, "I want to see if people like me.

All violence {is} a person's attempt to replace shame with self-esteem.

What happened, Bob explained to us now, although we didn't need telling, was that Jack Abbott was a psychopath. He couldn't bear being disrespected. His self-worth was too grandiose for that. He couldn't control his impulses. "When

Sure, he's an ass, but remember, I have to live in their house. Anyway, that's how you treat people like that: Make 'em know how dumb they are, and they go away feeling a little less pleased with themselves.

And this of course, was the simplest definition of depression that he knew of: strongly disliking yourself.

compliments were like a beverage she was unconsciously smart enough to deny herself even one drop of, because her thirst for them was infinite.

I'm the fat little humiliation he's married to.

he was afraid that if the idea that he was depressed gained currency, he would forfeit his right to his opinions. He would forfeit his moral certainties; every word he spoke would become a symptom of disease; he would never again win an argument.

You seem a little challenged in the entitlement department. I mean, compared to the others.

Si uno dedica su existencia a gustar, y si adopta la imagen atractiva necesaria para ello, sea la que sea, se suele creer que uno ha desistido de ser querido por ser quien es en realidad. Y si uno consigue manipular a los demás para gustarles, será difícil no sentir cierto desprecio por esas personas, ya que han caído en el engaño.

The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.

I think it's very pretty. Can it be pretty if no one thinks it's pretty? I think it's pretty. If you're the only one? That's pretty pretty. And what about the boys? Don't you want them to think you're pretty? I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

Can't you even tell me if I'm on the right track? Buckminster purred, and Dad shrugged his shoulders again. But if you don't tell me anything, how can I ever be right? He circled something in an article and said, Another way of looking at it would be, how could you ever be wrong?

I wouldn't want a boy to think I was pretty unless he was the kind of boy who thought I was pretty.

Nobody wants to be a caricature. Nobody wants to be a diminished version of herself.

From the unemployed Sloucher Lumpl W, who reclined on Passover not because it was religious custom but because why should that night be different from all others?: I'm not the greatest person that ever lived, but I would be a good father, and you know it.

I'm sure people tell you this constantly, but if you looked up 'incredibly beautiful' in the dictionary, there would be a picture of you. She cracked up a bit and said, People never tell me that. I bet they do. She cracked up a bit more. They don't. Then you hang out with the wrong people. You might be right about that. Because you're incredibly beautiful.

how vain an attempt it is for a man to endeavour to do himself honour among those who are out of all degree of equality or comparison with him.

Your heart, mind, hands and feet are stamped with the imprint of the Creator. Little wonder that the Devil wants you to be ashamed of your body.

He wanted her to be as well dressed as the richest lady in Ilhéus; fine clothes would erase her past and hide the stove burns of her arms. But the fine clothes rarely left the closet

la mayoría de la gente no se preocupa por el tema de si quiere o no, sólo se preocupa sobre si es querido y si se le demuestra el amor.