Quotes About Self-worth

But a pretty face is just a lucky accident. Pretty can't feed you. And you'll never be pretty enough for some people.

In a relationship where one person believes her or himself to be essentially unlovable and undesirable in either an emotional or sexual sense, mutuality is absent. The survivor believes it's necessary to pay for the presence of the other person, literally or symbolically.

We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance sale prices, mistaking screwing for caring. We binge, purge, sleep around. We drink too much and get too high, anything to blot out the past.

Being user friendly doesn't mean you're going to be loved.

We wait to be rescued, but for whatever reason, no one comes. We figure that if no one protects us then we must not be worth protecting so we become prey and are easily picked off. Our wounded, kicked-puppy gazes attract sly predators and we sell ourselves for clearance.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserable all your days. Other people will try to make you miserable; don't help them by doing the job yourself.

Everyone know that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school. Seriously, everyone knows it. You never hear someone say, "Oh, wow, you're seventeen and you really like him? That's great, you should do whatever it takes to get him, even if it means wrecking your whole like.

Everyone knows that you should never wreck your life for a boy, and especially not one that you meet while you're in high school.

You are definitely not a slut," Jasmine says, putting her arms around her. "Having sex with a guy you like does not make you a slut. Now if you start having sex with every guy you like, then we'll reclassify you according to level of skankiness.

Don't wait too long to be rescued, old lady – you might pass your sell-by date.

Don't cry over someone who wouldn't cry over you.

I hope you find a place in your life when you can let go and be happy. But I'm not a dirty secret. I'm not bad and wrong for being comfortable with myself, and I won't let you make me feel that way.

Loving someone more than they love you is a sucky thing. But I'm over it.

My position on what other people think of me is, fuck what other people think.

Do you feel like he sees all your cracks and breaks and accepts them? Because that's what you should demand. You're worth that sort of understanding. You get to move on. You have every right to do that.

They don't like you because they can't own you. You're not after all the things they think are important.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

I didn't grow up identifying with beauty. I grew up thinking I could be smart and funny - those are the things I got feedback on.

You are enough even if you don't see or know it

Don't give away what you have, but don't let what you have all you ever have.

surest remedy for the male disease of self-contempt is the love of a sensible woman.

It pains me physically to see a woman victimized, rendered pathetic, by fashion.

One day soon, this body will be old; and not too long afterward, it will turn into dust. This thought frightened her, made her think of how insignificant she was, made her realize that she alone gave her life significance.