Quotes About Self-worth

No more verbal tap-dancing for pennies of affirmation.

never delude yourself into believing that you require someone else's blessing (or even their comprehension) in order to make your own creative work. And always remember that people's judgments about you are none of your business.

did believe that my behavior made me unusual—because it didn't seem to match the behavior of other women—but I didn't believe that it made me bad.

A sad-faced Russian woman tells us she's treating herself to Italian lessons because I think I deserve something beautiful.

You're as good as any other living soul on this earth. Whether other people know that or not doesn't really matter as long as you do.

I am a whore, she said. And in addition to that, I am not a nice woman. But despite these facts, my word is gold.

Alice, who measured the same from her neck to her waist back and front, and considered that so would all women if they were really good and attended to their duties, admired persons, he was aware, of a flat build. He didn't. He was quite sure that curves were comfortable things. All women should have them—curves, soft curves, curves against which one could lay one's head when tired of everything, and go to sleep.

I've been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I've been waiting for someone to see all the good in me at every truck stop and intersection along the way. I've been waiting all my life for the moment to arrive when I can just stop. Stop looking

I had tried so hard for so many years to turn all my despair into sexual abandon, I wanted so much to stop being me and start being someone else's toy, but I didn't have it in me.

I know I want out of this mess. I want out. No one will ever love me, I will live and die alone, I will go nowhere fast, I will be nothing at all. Nothing will work out. The promise that on the other side of depression lies a beautiful life, one worth surviving suicide for, will have turned out wrong. It will all be a big dupe.

As you heal, you see yourself more realistically. You accept that you are a person with strengths and weaknesses. You make the changes you can in your life and let go of the things that aren't in your power to change. You learn that every part of you is valuable. And you realize that all of your thoughts and feelings are important, even when they're painful or difficult.

But why should I cast myself in the ancient female part of victim of men's plots and passions?

Alone again, Beverly relaxed somewhat. It was hard to believe that life could get any worse than this. More than once lately, she had thought about killing herself, erasing the fact that she had ever existed. It would be so easy, so—except that she wouldn't. She didn't respect people who committed suicide.

Now, I'm not the sort to find fault in myself just because others do;

A passionate soul, who asks too much of himself, and under-values what he gives.

Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it.

those who want to beat you down can't succeed unless you give them help!

It's always nicer, I think, to be a big frog in a little puddle than to be an unrecognised croaker in a great, big pool.

A woman need a man to claim, even if it's a dead one.

He say, 'You can be somebody if you want.' How the shit he don't know I'm somebody right now? He think he somebody and I'm not.

Pride is a funny thing; it can make what is truly worthless appear to be a treasure.

Many people suffer all their lives from this oppressive feeling of guilt, the sense of not having lived up to their parents' expectations. This feeling is stronger than any intellectual insight they might have, that it is not a child's task or duty to satisfy his parents needs. No argument can overcome these guilt feelings, for they have their beginnings in life's earliest periods, and from that they derive their intensity and obduracy.

I hate the blues; I hate being worse off than someone else.

Who wants to see us anyway?