Quotes About Self-worth

You can see this everywhere you go: young, middle-class people whose lives are beginning to disappoint them making too much noise in restaurants and clubs and wine bars. "Look at me! I'm not as boring as you think I am! I know how to have fun!" Tragic. I'm glad I learned to stay home and sulk.)

She and Duncan had ended up together because they were the last two people to be picked for a sports team, and she felt she was better at sports than that.

Can I be a good person and spend that much money on overpriced consumer goods? I don't know. But I do know this: I'd be no good without them.

I should warn, you, Duncan: I'm not going to fight for you. The whole point of you is that you're not the sort of person anyone fights over. You're my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you're no option at all.

This thing about looking for someone less different… It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

Problema della mia generazione è che ci sentiamo tutti dei geni del cazzo. Far qualcosa per noi non è abbastanza, e neanche vendere qualcosa, o insegnare qualcosa o solamente combinare qualcosa: no, noi dobbiamo essere qualcosa.

magazines. He was disappointed about something else, she thought; he was disappointed that he'd never quite added up to as much as the results of his own calculations. The trouble was that he'd got his sums all wrong, but she didn't want to be the one to tell him that.

It's sad that he doesn't know why I didn't respond to his seedy nightclub-owner gestures; it's sad that I end up convincing myself somehow that the man capable of making them is a significant and valuable figure in my life.

Hal tentang mencari seseorang yang tak jauh berbeda darimu... Itu hanya berfungsi, ia menyadarinya, jika kau mempercayai bahwa kau tidaklah terlalu buruk sebelumnya.

I don't belong to anyone ! I'm not a thing, to be kept or ordered or driven to such despair that I open my own veins. Look at me, Aoife. Look at me! I'm a woman.

There is one thing Margaret Thatcher said that I agree with: if you have to tell people you're important, you're not.

Alone in my room, wrapped in a blanket, I whimpered and talked aloud to myself, recalling the lost glory of my youth when I considered myself, and was considered by others, a bright and capable person. It seemed that was all gone now. I wondered whether what I was experiencing was some sort of psychotic break, the sort that ambushes a person who until then has lived an ordinary life, auguring a new existence full of torment and struggle.

You just have to go after what you want and if it doesn't want you back then so be it; it doesn't deserve you anyways.

I've just gone through so much in my life that pulling my top up just doesn't seem like that big of a deal.

go for what you want if it doesn't want you back, so be it, it doesn't deserve you

and he said: you pretty full of yourself ain't chu so she replied: show me someone not full of herself and i'll show you a hungry person

BEFORE YOU JUMP OFF A BRIDGE OR HANG YOURSELF OR BE UNHAPPY PLEASE CONSIDER: LIVE FOR YOURSELF; THOSE WHO HATE YOU HAVE NO PURCHASE

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is no longer being served.

Do not be reluctant to value yourself highly, for others do so. Nor should you hesitate to aspire to any goal, because God has been lavish in his gifts to you.

What's the point of being better than someone else?

Every so often I would look at my women friends who were happily married and didn't cook, and I would always find myself wondering how they did it. Would anyone love me if I couldn't cook? I always thought cooking was part of the package: Step right up, it's Rachel Samstat, she's bright, she's funny and she can cook!

SALLY    Harry, I can't do this anymore. I am not your consolation prize. Goodbye.

once you find out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.