Quotes About Self-worth

love your body the way your mother loved your baby feet and brother, arm wrapping shoulders, remember, this is important: you are worth more than who you fuck, you are worth more than a waistline, you are worth more than beer bottles displayed like drunken artifacts, you are no less valuable as a size 16 than a size 4, you are no less valuable as a 32A than a 36C you are worth more than any naked bod

I know sometimes you feel less than human more like an unknown planet no one cares about more like hot guilt more like a catalog of trauma mary, stop trying to die. there is nothing better than looking into the mirror to discover infinite doors. to witness your own bloom. you are the best version of this story. we're all waiting for you

girls like us are hardly ever wanted, you know we're used up. and sad. and drunk. and perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick up and say "you did good." well, you did good

love your body the way your mother loved your baby feet and brother, arm wrapping shoulders, remember, this is important: you are worth more than who you fuck, you are worth more than a waistline, you are worth more than beer bottles displayed like drunken artifacts, you are no less valuable as a size 16 than a size 4, you are no less valuable as a 32A than a 36C you are worth more than any naked body

the time has come for us to reclaim our bodies. Our bodies deserve more than to be war-torn and collateral, offering this fuckdom as a pathetic means to say: i only know how to exist when i'm wanted girls like us are hardly ever wanted, you know we're used up. and sad. and drunk. and perpetually waiting by the phone for someone to pick up and say "you did good." well, you did good.

Think of yourself as being loved, because you are.

He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, was an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant you expected too much, most of the time, and liked yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing

He wanted to tell her, from the greater perspective that he had, that to own only a little talent, like his, is an awful, plaguing thing; that being only a little special meant that you expected too much, most of the time, and like yourself too little. He wanted to assure her that she had missed nothing.

I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

I asked, it is true, for greater treasures than a little food or rest: I required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

required kindness and sympathy; but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?

You hate me; but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself

Once I falsely hoped to meet with beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

How useless to know the value of all things but to know nothing of one's own worth.

once you start doubting yourself it's over

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." The question I have for you at this part of our journey together is, "What is your genius?

If she wasn't pretty enough for them, fine, because they weren't worth her time anyway. They didn't make her happy. None of them were good people. None of them were nice.

Why would some decent guy our age wanna talk to me? He can go on his phone and find a hundred versions of me the way I looked fifteen years ago.

the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy

You can't hand boys around as though they were pieces of cake, she said. Don't worry about getting a boy for me, Betsy. Boys just don't seem important to me. They don't seem any more important to me than they ever did. Tacy! said Betsy. You're beyond me! Well! said Tacy. That's the way I am.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.