Quotes About Self-worth

Know first who you are and then adore yourself accordingly.

Our eyes locked. And in that moment everything shifted. I saw what I had really done. I saw that I could be somebody's center, his reason for staying. I saw that I could be enough.

Don't let that thing define you" -Will Traynor

She could show her daughter that there was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were.

She tries to imagine Carl getting his pubic hair lasered to make sure he was attractive enough for her, and it's so unthinkable she laughs out loud. And now, because she is female and did all the things expected of her, she's been discarded for a younger, supposedly sweeter model.

Because there had to be something wrong, didn't there, if even your own mother didn't really love you?

I'm not sure happiness is a matter of what you deserve.

A new start, at my age. Not sure I really deserve it.

You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you

visits. Your parents plainly think you're a loser. You don't have the guts to walk out of even the

Look outwards, Alice,' Margery would say, her voice carrying on the breeze. 'Not much point worrying what the town thinks about you – nothing you can do about that anyway. But when you look outwards, why, there's a whole world of beautiful things.

he knew better than anyone that you couldn't make someone stay with you. There was no point trying to hang on to someone who didn't want you.

I'm not sure happiness a matter of what you deserve.

And in that moment everything shifted. I saw what I had really done. I saw that I could be somebody's center, his reason for staying. I saw that I could be enough.

Slowly, I have learned to judge myself by whether I am being the person I want to be and living by my values, not calculating the value of my possessions or accomplishments.

Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.

The more you open to connection, the more you get. The more you believe you are worthy of connection, the more connection appears in your life.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.

I'm not just a boy toy. I have feelings and dreams like anybody else.

PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you

The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is what I remain in my own eyes, to this day. The knowledge never goes, can never be undone. You just have to find a way to live with it.

But nothing disturbs the feeling of specialness like the presence of other human beings feeling identically special.