Quotes About Self-worth

The real reason why so few men believe in God is that they have ceased to believe that even a God can love them.

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!

But the pride of those who live as if they believed they were better than anyone else is rooted in a secret failure to believe in their own goodness.

He who is controlled by objects Loses possession of his inner self: If he no longer values himself, How can he value others? If he no longer values others, He is abandoned. He has nothing left!

it may express the solitary's conviction that he is not good enough for most of the visible exercises of the community, that his own part is to carry out some hidden function, in the community's spiritual cellar.

To give my freedom blindly to a being equal to or inferior to myself is to degrade myself and throw away my freedom. I can only become perfectly free by serving the will of God. If

The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!

The problem in narcissism is not the high ideals and ambitions, it's the difficulty one encounters when trying to give them body.

What is it with me? Am I absolutely nobody, but merely inordinately vain? I do not know…. But I am most fearfully unhappy. That is all. I am so unhappy that I wish I was dead—yet I should be mad to die when I have not yet lived at all.

Those who hurt you in the past have no authority to determine whether or not you will live a life of love and fulfillment. You are the only one holding that power.

You must go back to rescue the younger you from that wacky and distorted hall of mirrors. Because the meaning you made about yourself and your life—that you are bad, not wanted, not loved, too much, not enough, powerless, and/or destined to be alone in life—is simply not true.

True love feels perfectly safe to explore and admit one's weaknesses, because doing so is not an admission that one is bad or inferior in any way.

chronically overgiving as a way to try to prove her value.

If you don't like being a doormat, then get off the floor. AL-ANON

But no fifty-year-old can compete with a twenty-year-old.

the realization that my life is not the sum of who loved me - but rather the sum of who I have loved.

Please, God. I am a smart woman, I know words, I've read books; he's just a guy, he's just a person, I can speak to him. "Hmm," I say, and during the subsequent silence, I consider ways to kill myself.

She sighed and shook her head. "I'm not worth yer time or effort. Truly, I'm not." "And

don't be so kind to me, she thought. I don't deserve it.

Paulette shook her head and sighed. In her world Grace had failed to meet the responsibility of her own beauty. This was not just a waste but a sin.

What a shock it had been when she began to grow invisible to men and they no longer registered her. How humiliating to discover time had abducted her favorite version of herself and replaced it with a saggy middle-aged woman instead.

It's terrible to live believing that everything you do is of the utmost importance.

You is kind. You is smart. You is important.

I find waiting unbearable because it makes me passive and negates me. I hate being nothing.