Quotes About Self-worth

I love you, Cole. I'm sorry if I ever made you feel like you were second best or that I didn't love you or that God forbid, you were a substitute for Lucas and that any man could give me what I want and need.

Guilt is bullshit. I don't want it. Don't need it.

At what point in her life had she decided she didn't deserve better than this? It was a startling discovery. The blinders had come off. Why was she putting up with this?

I'm not saying this is going toe easy. I'll make mistakes. You'll make mistakes, mostly about trying to draw attention to the differences between us. I realize it'll take time for you to get over this mind-set that you're somehow not good enough for me. It pisses me off, but I get that you can't change a lifetime of seeing yourself the way you do overnight. But I'm going to work on it and wear you down.

When people look you in the eye and call you stupid, dont look away, but tell them that half of the world is stupid and they are one of them because they are dening their own stupidity.

Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.

You know what you sound like? A jealous girl friend. And how are things on Planet You Wish?

Honey, You ain't a hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you.

And you know what? Maybe Michael didn't write those notes. And maybe he doesn't think I'm the Josiest girl in school. But he thought I looked nice in my pink dress. And that's all that matters to me.

Am I really not worth shaving for?

Weight doesn't matter. It really doesn't. I mean, it does if you're a model or whatever.

I understand you love him and UR down/ But that don't mean you gotta be his clown.

Besides the age thing, Father Dom being sixty and me being sixteen, he's Mister Nice himself, whereas I'm ... Well, not. Not that I don't try to be. It's just that one thing I've learned from all of this is that we don't have very much time here on Earth. So why waste it putting up with other people's crap? Particularly people who are already dead, anyway.

You know, there's nothing wrong with admitting you're depressed. Many, many people have suffered from depression. Having depression doesn't mean you're crazy, or a failure, or a bad person.

Don't ever let them tell you that you're too stupid to do something. I'm not saying it's going to be easy for you. Maybe you're going to have to work for it a little harder than other people, which I know isn't fair. But that doesn't mean you should just give up.

No! It isn't fair! Rachel is EVERYONE'S type! I mean, she's attractive and athletic and well put together and successful and went to Yale and is making a difference in the world. What about ME? What about nice girls like me, who are just...well, nice? What about the nice girls? How are we supposed to compete with all of these competent, athletic, shower-taking girls, with their diplomas and their Palm Pilots and their teeny tiny butts?

You've got to show them that by expressing themselves creatively through singing, songwriting, and performing, they can be whoever they want to be . . . not someone who takes off her clothes on top of a pool table for beer, not someone who can be bought and sold, not some sexual object for a man's desire, but a strong, tough businesswoman and artist.

I wouldn't care what she said. She's Luisa Ferrari. She has no power over me.

I wanted Ambiades to understand that I considered myself a hierarchy of one.

I grieved, but a part of me felt a lightening of a burden that I had carried all my life: that I could never be worthy of them, that I would always disappoint or fail them. As an unknown slave in the fields of the baron, I knew the worst was over. I had failed them. At least I could not do so again

That is it, Sophos. You have hit upon my greatest fear. Someone who named himself Bunny is going to outshine me on the battle field.

lay there on my pallet, hoping it would improve soon and wondering, in a distant, unreproachful sort of way, if I was any kind of man at all, and decided that I probably wasn't.

We do better when we are praised and worse when we feel unappreciated for our work.

Does he make you happy? Sure, I said. He told me I didn't know what real happiness was. You have to shrink yourself to fit into this little life with him.