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Quotes About Self-worth

Stop caring what other people think. How? Understand that this is your life, not theirs, and you'll have no one to blame but yourself if things don't work out the way you'd hoped...their opinion shouldn't matter more than your own.
~ Stephanie Klein
My therapist told me I need to learn to love myself. It sounds easy enough, but really, how do you just wake up one day and learn that? It feels like something you should just do involuntarily, like swallowing or blinking, but now I have to work on it. It feels so forced. I mean, I know I went to a good school, and people tell me I'm smart and creative, but I don't KNOW that. I don't know how to make myself feel that.
~ Stephanie Klein
Dad, I'll never do any better. He's smart and funny and good-looking.. Stephanie, he took both my hands, how could you do any worse? Best rhetorical question ever.
~ Stephanie Klein
If another man wanted me, I was valuable. I was esteemed, no matter that it wasn't self-esteem.
~ Stephanie Klein
Why... didn't you make me good enough... so that you could've loved me?
~ Stephen Adly Guirgis
I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I think it was the first time in my life I ever felt like I looked "good". Do you know what I mean? That nice feeling when you look in the mirror, and your hair's right for the first time in your life? I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees her is better than she actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera.
~ Stephen Chbosky
When I was driving home, I just thought about the word 'special'. And I thought the last person who said that about me was my Aunt Helen. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way. I really do.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Craig said the problem with things is that everyone is always comparing everyone with everyone
~ Stephen Chbosky
Why would I care whether or not he loved me when he didn't even really know me?
~ Stephen Chbosky
I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.
~ Stephen Chbosky
El problema es que todo el mundo siempre compara a todos con todos y que eso le quita mérito a la gente
~ Stephen Chbosky
I am below average!
~ Stephen Chbosky
He got this very serious look on his face after I told him, and he said something to me I don't think I will forget this semester or ever. 'Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I told him about the boy [...] hitting my sister [...] He got this very serious look on his face after I told him, and he said something to me I don't think I will forget [...] ever. Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think everyone is special in their own way
~ Stephen Chbosky
Everyone is comparing everyone with everyone.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Charlie, aceptamos el amor que pensamos que nos merecemos.
~ Stephen Chbosky
Bill smiled and continued asking me questions. Slowly, he got to "problems at home." And I told him about the boy who makes mix tapes hitting my sister because my sister only told me not to tell mom or dad about it, so I figured I could tell Bill. He got this very serious look on his face after I told him, and he said something to me I don't think I will forget this semester or ever. "Charlie, we accept the love we think we deserve.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is. The
~ Stephen Chbosky
I don't think we should base so much on weight, muscles, and a good hair day, but when it happens, it's nice. It really is.
~ Stephen Chbosky
I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better than the girl actually is.
~ Stephen Chbosky