Quotes About Self-worth

Every day I wake up is a day I've fought for. Every mistake, every laugh, every tear, and every sunrise; I've earned through the years of abuse and pain. I carry those memories with me as a reminder of who I am and what's truly worth fighting for. And if you aren't able to see that, I'm afraid your soul searching talents are highly suspect.

I'm not Jane Eyre for goodness' sake.

It's nice to be with someone, but I don't think you need to be in a relationship to feel complete. That would be really sad.

She was so tired of being considered disposable.

She thought: It doesn't hurt, it's just my body. They can't touch my soul. It had become her mantra.

What I am is good enough if I could only be it openly.

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

I'm not perfect... But I'm enough.

To recognize that "I am the one who chooses" and "I am the one who determines the value of an experience for me" is both an invigoraring and a frightening realization.

To recognize that "I am the one who chooses" and "I am the one who determines the value of an experience for me" is both an invigorating and a frightening realization.

The discovery that I was nothing, that I was responsible for no one, that I was a man of no importance, gave me the joy of a boy on holiday

Luxury feeds ego and helps people to achieve a sense of social advancement. It may not be a psychologically healthy frame of mind, but most people attach self-worth to the ownership of exclusive items.

I couldn't possibly be a good husband and father unless I had a job." "Then why not get a job?" "Nobody would ever hire me. I've tried. I'm unemployable.

I'd study the people around me for clues. Clues to figure out whom to emulate, how to dress, how to speak, how to act, how to dance. I'd grown up feeling unworthy and underloved. I wanted nothing more than to feel secure in myself—to feel that I was really good at something.

Lack of attention from Daddy made me think less of me and not less of him.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

When people close to us try to boost their self-importance by cutting us down, the wounds go deep.

He wanted to appear bigger than he was because in his own mind, he already was.

Recognize your wealth but realize your measurement

I was a very lonely child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a sense that if I deserved it, it would be there. There must be something I'd done which meant I didn't deserve it.

My parents never recognized the things that for me were achievements. I was praised for the things that came naturally to me, like my intelligence, but when I really put all my effort into looking nice (trying to), it went unrecognised. No-one ever told me I looked pretty or nice, or that I was a beautiful person (to them) and I needed them to...

yet still I crave the sight of my own hypnotic gaze reflecting out at me from the shared mirror of anorexia and bulimia, number to life and reality, existing only in my self-made tortured state

I was a very lonley child and it's funny but the first word that comes to my head is "starved". I felt starved of affection, starved of love and I felt that it wasn't OK to ask for it. Maybe there was a sense that if I deserved it, it would be there. There must be something I'd done which meant I didn't deserve it.

No means so. Even if, at first, you thought you meant yes. Even if, at first, it was your fault. Even if, at first, you made yourself available.