Quotes About Self-worth

I mention all this so that you will understand that is part of the process: once you've found out he's cheated on you, you have to keep finding it out, over and over and over again, until you've degraded yourself so completely that there's nothing left to do but walk out.

The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. Now the most important thing about me is that I'm old.

It's hard loving someone more than they love you, and it's something I have to deal with.

I won't consider getting horizontal with someone I can barely tolerate when we're vertical.

Comparisons are made to make the other person fall short.

Stop thinking of yourself as a reflection of what a man saw in you, andbe. I asked you if it bothered you that people will talk. I wish you'd said the hell with people. Let them talk. It's time you gave them something to talk about.

It isn't easy looking in the mirror and accepting that you were missing some element, some thing that kept a person you wanted from loving you.

If you didn't let a man mean too much, you wouldn't be too hurt when he went away. But that didn't mean you had to stop living too. Even if you didn't jump off a cliff there were other ways to end life.

It was a well-aimed arrow. Had anyone even noticed she was no longer at the library? All the people she'd worked with, worked for? All the patrons she'd helped? Had she been so replaceable that her absence hadn't caused a single ripple? Hadn't she mattered at all?

comparison are designed to make someone fall short

She had, for too many years, found it easier to bend than to stand.

Shut up. You Matter. That's it.

My own brother calling me a brickhead. Sneering faeries insulting me. Women punching me in the face. How much more am I to swallow in one bloody day?

I'm a mild disappointment to them, which is worse somehow than being a serious disappointment. So I'm working hard not to be any kind of disappointment to myself." She

Then again, she reminded herself, if she wanted Nick to take her seriously as a woman, she had to take herself seriously first.

When people break your heart, pride's all you've got left.

When people break your heart, pride's all you've got left. And pride, could turn cold and bitter without heart.

I'd have taken anything you'd given. I'd have wrapped my own gauzy layers around it and convinced myself that it was right. But it would never have been right. I can't be happy, not really down-to-the-bone happy, with less than I need. And if I'm not happy, I can't make someone else happy.

I haven't been with a man before. I know it. Adelia's smile was soft, almost wistful. Do you think I wouldn't know if that had changed for you? You think too much of yourself to give what you are to something unless it matters.No one's mattered before.

Love and pride don't belong together.

Baby, you are normal. It doesn't mean you can't be special.

Don't turn your back on your own happiness just to hug your pride.

I blurted it out, like a big announcement. 'I'm gay!'" She laughed a little, stroked Marco's cheek. "What did he say?" "He said he hoped one day, when I was grown and ready, I'd find a man worthy of me, and not to settle for less. 'Be true to yourself, Marco,' he said, 'and anyone who tries to make your truth a lie or shameful isn't worth a single one of your thoughts.

People who expect less and to be treated as less often get less.