Quotes About Self-worth

My body is a temple not just any boy gets to worship at. I won't do any more than I want to do.

Probablemente clasificaría a Chris con las chicas fiesteras, las chicas que duermen con todos, las chicas que no son "mejores que eso". Se equivocaría. Todas somos iguales.

The whole reason I broke up with him was so I wouldn't be that girl crying over her boyfriend, and now that's exactly what I am. It's pathetic.

I don't want to be the And Peggy of my own story. I want to be the Hamilton.

Like different how?" I know I'm digging for a compliment, but I don't care.

I used to only care about what everyone thought of me, but not anymore. Now I only care about what the people I love think of me, and everyone else can rot in hell!

Why should 20-year-olds only be considered sexy? I think we get better with age.

I don't understand you. I can't treat myself like a hurdy-gurdy from which I can take out an unpopular piece and put in a tune that everybody is whistling.

Suppose for example, that he lacks outward comforts, good cheer and feasting, a good conscience in a continual feast; so he can make up the lack of a feast by the peace that he has in his own conscience. If he lacks melody in the world, he has a bird within him that sings the most melodious songs in the world, and the most delightful. And then does he lack honor? He has his own conscience witnessing for him, that is as a thousand witnesses.

For if all the men in the world looked upon you as more happy than themselves, then you would be contented. Oh, do not let your happiness depend upon the fancies of other men.

And I'm not sure I would like it in Brazil, either, having to walk around in a thong to demonstrate that I had nothing about my person worth stealing.

The definition of freedom is the infinite value of the human being. Everything that is evil teaches people that they have limited value.

I considered sex work, but then I bent over and looked at my asshole in a mirror. Nobody was going to pay me for access to that thing.

I love you all, so much more than you should ever love me.

To go about without a linen scarf on is nothing: what is praiseworthy is to be without money to buy one. It is disgraceful and absurd to boast of having neither napkin nor handkerchief and yet to carry a well-filled purse.

I feel that I have to do everything better just to be judged as okay. It is something I wish I could let go of. It's something that I wish just wasn't there.

I had never realized how much I needed the attention of others to confirm my own presence.

What's the whole point of being pretty on the outside when you're so ugly on the inside?

No one gets to tell you what your life means!

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Some people are always thirsting for water from other people's wells.

There's no such thing as a perfect guy. I think it would be strange if somebody was absolutely everything you always wanted, because then there'd be no challenge. Also, you'd feel inferior. If somebody is that perfect, how can you not think of yourself as being so imperfect next to him? I think people are perfect in their imperfections.

I don't put weight on fame, and having people around me just because I am famous makes me feel really bad about myself.

America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves . . . Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters.