Quotes About Self-worth

And you… do you know what you are?" "Stupid?" "Beautiful," he says, his face turning red.

And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it's not that easy.

I broke my own heart once. I gave it to someone who I knew didn't want it, and had to take it back when he refused to hold it.

To be asked to relive this horribly painful part of our lives and then be questioned on whether we could have or should have done more than we did to help ourselves is, frankly put, insulting. The truth of the matter is, the person being questioned survived. So that in and of itself is a big deal.

I am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am.

There is that constant judgment in this world: How are we going to make sure we do not feel inferior to another?

Please try to understand this: I have always thought that if there was a big corkboard and on that board was a pin for every person who ever lived, there would be no pin for me.

on some very fundamental level, I feel invisible in the world.

Everyone needs to feel important.

Whatever we call it, I think it's the lowest part of who we are, this need to find someone else to put down.

did not feel that I mattered. Because in a way I have never been able to feel that. And so the days were hard.

I did not feel that I mattered.

am not invisible no matter how deeply I feel that I am.

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

Když se nepovede sebevražda, není to nezbytn? ta nejsmutn?jší v?c na sv?t?. ?lov?ku se nem?že poda?it všechno.

Ciertas fanfarronadas se esfuman viajando, y que cada cual tiene las ciudades y la memoria que se merece

There is a war that makes us adore our conquerors and despise ourselves.

No one can prove you dumb except yourself!

When i think of how racist, how Eurocentric our so-called education in amerika is, it staggers my mind. And when i think back to some of those kids who were labeled "troublemakers" and "problem students," i realize that many of them were unsung heroes who fought to maintain some sense of dignity and self-worth.

You are your own judge. The verdict is up to you.

You are loved more than you've ever know

I write for those women who do not speak, for those who do not have a voice because they were so terrified, because we are taught to respect fear more than ourselves. We've been taught that silence would save us, but it won't.

Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.

The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries or the way she combs her hair.