Quotes About Self-worth

The smart, ambitious woman he'd fallen in love with had slipped under the weight of his dark moods. She didn't like who she was becoming—quick to please him just to stop his anger, less likely to listen to herself than to him.

She's so anxious about being loved, she ends up driving people away.

Never diminish your own worth, not even in jest, or someone will start to believe it.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my own was negated. I thought I simply had to accept the fact that I was ugly, and that to feel despair about it was simply wrong.

Hak ettiÄŸi bir övgünün önce kendisinden esirgendiÄŸini, ard?ndan kendisine cömert bir armaÄŸan gibi sunulduÄŸunu görüp de sinirlenmeyecek biri var m?d?r, bilemiyorum.

se un rosignolo dà via le penne della coda, può dire: mi resta il dono del canto; ma se le fate dar via a un pavone, le penne della coda, che gli resta?

He felt locked into Lane's version of him. Disposable. Occupying a space, a slot in the world, for no good reason. And therefore, in the end—after years of what he took to be closeness—not even worth a goodbye. He must be less than no one. Because no one, at least, contained possibility.

There will always be people who are better off or who get good jobs or who marry well- whatever that means. We should be happy with what we've got.

You may be a lady but your are still the man!

Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what's been said to me.

We must not confuse the command to love with the disease to please.

It is precisely because I valued myself that I was unwilling to remain miserable in a school and whole social environment that did not fit my needs. It is because the housewife had regard for herself that she refused to tolerate any longer a marriage that so totally limited her freedom and repressed her personality. It is because the businessman cared for himself that he was no longer willing to nearly kill himself in order to meet the expectations of his mother.

You are a beautiful and beloved individual. It is good to be you. We will love you no matter what you do, as long as you are you.

If being loved is your goal, you will fail to achieve it. The only way to be assured of being loved is to be a person worthy of love, and

Specifically, one whose life is ruled and dictated by dependency needs suffers from a psychiatric disorder to which we ascribe the diagnostic name "passive dependent personality disorder." It is perhaps the most common of all psychiatric disorders. People with this disorder, passive dependent people, are so busy seeking to be loved that they have no energy left to love.

This feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when one considers oneself valuable one will take care of oneself in all ways that are necessary.

The feeling of being valuable—"I am a valuable person"—is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline. It is a direct product of parental love. Such a conviction must be gained in childhood; it is extremely difficult to acquire it during adulthood. Conversely, when children have learned through the love of their parents to feel valuable, it is almost impossible for the vicissitudes of adulthood to destroy their spirit.

The feeling of being valuable—"I am a valuable person"—is essential to mental health and is a cornerstone of self-discipline.

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

Crescuti fara iubire, copiii ajung sa creada despre sine ca nu merita sa fie iubiti. Am putea spune ca aceasta este legea generala a dezvoltarii copiilor : ori de cate ori exista un deficit major in iubirea parentala, e foarte probabil ca respectivul copil sa raspunda la acest deficit presupunand ca el este cauza deficitului si dezvoltand, prin urmare, o imagine de sine negativa nerealista.

If we feel ourselves valuable, then we will feel our time to be valuable, and if we feel our time to be valuable, then we will want to use it well.

valuable—"I am a valuable person

How can someone so loved look so constantly for reasons to be unworthy of it?