Quotes About Self-worth

But don't go thinking I owe you any favors, mister. :-)

My life wasn't so bad. At least that's what I kept telling myself, in a vain attempt to stave off the epic loneliness I now felt.

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Most often the little man makes himself even smaller than he already is, so as not to be seen.

How could he have treated me so, he who congratulated himself on his belief that I was his equal? I had never been his equal. To him, perhaps, any deep acceptance of equality was impossible. He saw only those who were there to be saved, and those did the saving.

How strange it felt to be alive, and whole, and astonishingly worth saving.

But I needed to do myself the justice of at least looking.

No one is more qualified than you to set the standards for you.

And it is nice to know that it matters not what others are choosing, or what others are even thinking about what I am choosing. What is important is that I am pleased with me, and as I see myself, I certainly am.

You are not here to prove your worthiness. You are worthy! You are here for the experience of joyful expansion.

In your lack of self-appreciation, you deny yourself your natural inheritance of continuous joy.

The appreciation that Source feels for you, never-endingly, will wrap you in a warm blanket of worthiness if you will allow it.

Stand like you deserve to be here

to engage in any path of well-being or self-development, some small part of us must already believe that we're worth developing.

We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.

I am somebody cause God don't make no junk

Spirituality means, among other things, taking ourselves seriously. It means going against the cultural stream in which we are incessantly trivialized to the menial status of producers and performers, constantly depersonalized behind the labels of our degrees or our salaries.

You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought.

Mother: "He made me feel like I wasn't really a writer if I wasn't published. It was as if my poetry didn't mean anything unless it was accepted by someone else." After

Take a bucket, fill it with water, Put your hand in—clear up to the wrist. Now pull it out; the hole that remains Is a measure of how you'll be missed… The moral of this quaint example; To do just the best that you can, Be proud of yourself, but remember, There is no Indispensable Man!

Every player, when you get released, you feel like you still have a lot to offer. And that team is telling you, 'No, you don't have a lot to offer, so we're moving on.'

I did roles that I hated, and there were roles that were detrimental to my acting ability. There were roles that I was always doing that were always the comic relief... it was destroying my soul.

You can be debased without relinquishing your identity, just as you can relinquish your identity without being debased.

I don't rely on my figure to sell records.