Quotes About Self-worth

If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship

Self-rejection is the biggest sin that you commit.

Debido a ese miedo a ser castigados y a no recibir la recompensa, empezamos a fingir que éramos lo que no éramos, con el único fin de complacer a los demás, de ser lo bastante buenos para otras personas.

Everyone looks for someone to love them, even when they hate themselves. They wait for lightning to strike, for the phone to ring, for a knight to arrive in shining armor. When people are disappointed in love, they think they're unlovable. They feel deprived and always hungry. This hunger makes them desperate for any offer of love and attention, and susceptible to all forms of mistreatment. To encourage

from someone else. If someone abuses you a little more than you abuse yourself, you will probably walk away from that person. But if someone abuses you a little less than you abuse yourself, you will probably stay in the relationship and tolerate it endlessly.

But the problem is not that our partner rejects us. The problem is that we reject ourselves, because we are not good enough, because that is what we believe.

Estoy gordo. Soy feo. Me hago viejo. Me estoy quedando calvo. Soy estúpido, nunca entiendo nada. Nunca seré lo suficientemente bueno. Nunca seré perfecto». ¿Ves de qué modo utilizamos las palabras contra nosotros mismos? Es necesario que empecemos a comprender lo que son las palabras y lo que hacen. Si entiendes el Primer Acuerdo (Sé impecable con tus palabras), verás cuántos cambios ocurren en tu vida.

With that fear of being punished and that fear of not getting the reward, we start pretending to be what we are not, just to please others, just to be good enough for someone else.

Faith is the result of an agreement. When you agree to believe in something without a doubt, you invest your faith. If you have no doubt about what you believe, then for you it is truth, even though it may really be a lie. Your faith is so powerful that if you believe you are not good enough, you are not good enough! If you believe you will fail, you will fail, because that is the power and magic of your faith.

El pecado empieza con el rechazo de uno mismo. El mayor pecado que cometes es rechazarte a ti mismo.

psychopaths have a narcissistic and grossly inflated view of their self-worth and importance, a truly astonishing egocentricity and sense of entitlement, and see themselves as the centre of the universe, as superior beings who are justified in living according to their own rules.

And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors.

Homo sentimentalis [...] a man who has raised feelings to a category of value. As soon as feelings are seen as value, everyone wants to feel; and because we all like to pride ourselves on our values, we have a tendency to show off our feelings.

Tamina feels that the eyes of a single outsider are enough to destroy the worth of her personal diaries, while Goethe thinks that if a single individual fails to set eyes on his lines, that individual calls his–Goethe's–entire existence into question. The difference between Tamina and Goethe is the difference between human being and writer.

How could someone who had so little respect for people be so dependent on what they thought of him?

She surrendered her body to the judgment of someone else's eyes- and that was a source of anxious uncertainty.

The basis of shame is not some mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

Consciousness of being loved separates a woman from the herd

Qué indefenso está el hombre ante los elogios!

Manejava o volante, sentia-se segura de si mesma e bela, e pensava ainda: seria verdadeiramente o amor que a amarrava a Klima ou tão-só o medo de perdê-lo? E se esse medo era de inicio a forma ansiosa do amor, com o passar do tempo não teria o amor (fatigado e esgotado) fugido aos poucos dessa forma? E não teria ficado, no fim de tudo, apenas esse medo, o medo sem amor? E o que restaria se o próprio medo desaparecesse?

Narsisist, kendini beÄŸenmiÅŸle ayn? ÅŸey deÄŸildir. Kendini beÄŸenmiÅŸ biri baÅŸkalar?n? hor görür. Onlar? küçümser. Narsisist ise baÅŸkalar?na fazla deÄŸer biçer; çünkü her insan?n gözünde kendi görüntüsünü görür ve o görüntüyü güzelleÅŸtirmek ister.

Oja?enost je stanje ispunjeno patnjom, izazvano pogledom na iznenada otkrivenu vlastitu bijedu. Jedan od uobi?ajenih lijekova protiv vlastite bijede je ljubav, jer onaj ko je apsolutno voljen ne može biti bijedan. Svi njegovi nedostaci bivaju iskupljeni pod magi?nim pogledom ljubavi u kome i nesportsko plivanje glavom isturenom iznad površine vode postaje zanosno.

But since Olga delighted in dividing herself in two, the one who observed life now interrupted the one who lived life: What did it matter that she was like this or like that? Why suffer over a reflection in a mirror? Wasn't she something other than an object for men's eyes? Other than merchandise putting herself on the market? Was she incapable of being independent of her appearance, at the very least to the degree that any man can be?

Aber gerade der Schwache muss stark sein können und weggehen, wenn der Starke zu schwach ist, dem Schwachen ein Unrecht antun zu können.