Quotes About Self-worth

there was never anything wrong with Jenni that couldn't be fixed by what's right with Jenni.

To be humble and modest does not entail self-derogation or self-humiliation.

If you think the goal of life is to impress someone with your possessions or looks or intelligence or... then you are not living - - you are a circus act.

Some say it's what's on the inside that counts. If that were true about women, Playboy would be running centerfolds of brain tissues and gall bladders.

I am no Baylor," Quinlan retorted. "And I never will be." "You're not supposed to be," Taras replied angrily. "You're supposed to be Quinlan.

A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

I used to work in a funeral home to feel good about myself, just the fact that I was breathing.

You are not your job, you're not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world.

My sense of self-worth vanished when I was with him. I hated myself for not having seen the movies he mentioned, for not having any decent clothes or shoes, for having no class. I totally messed things up with him. But I couldn't stand somebody who sang the words to Luo Dayou's "Love Song 1990" at the same time he was all hung up on desire and money, because that was an endless blasphemy against beauty.

Me he dejado pisar, basurear, usar. He dejado que hicieran lo que quisieron con mi mente y mis deseos, pero siempre quedó firme la idea de amarte para toda la vida.

Me da lo que quiere darme, sabiendo que voy a aceptar cualquier limosna que venga del rey que le hice creer que es.

Nunca les pasó estar con alguien muy hermoso? Ver a esa persona, escucharla hablar, seguir cada uno de sus fascinantes gestos, admirar su belleza… y más tarde mirarse en el espejo y darse cuenta de que uno es horrible y que estuvo creyéndose bello simplemente porque estaba mirando a alguien lindo que resultó no ser uno.

Lo conozco, se que no va a ser feliz con nadie, porque ni siquiera es feliz consigo mismo. Siempre volvió, siempre vuelve, siempre va a volver.

_You're not a thief. Not anymore._ If he said it often enough, it might stick.

I'm not going to let you hit me anymore," Han said quietly. "I've already had one beating today. That's enough.

While the opinions of others may drag us down, the God who created us has an entirely different opinion of who we are.

The face you have at age 25 is the face God gave you, but the face you have after 50 is the face you earned.

I had no more value after I became an author than when I was in my home tending to runny noses, little bumps and bruises. . . Our value can't be wrapped inside what others think or we think, because that is too dependent on this ever-shifting world. The value God places on us makes us more than we think we are, even on our hardest days, weeks, or years.

I will always have enough. I will always be enough.

Caretaking is never about the other person. It's about wanting to feel needed because you're afraid you're not wanted.

I don't think you should shape yourself for a boy, or anyone else. I didn't. You need to know deep down, in your own truest self, that you are more powerful when you're not lugging around all that flab. You are in control. You are strong. You are glorious.

In the world, when someone looks at a person like Julia they think weak. They think lazy. They see the fat and they know exactly how she got that way. Even the most politically-correct individual knows it deep down, but bites their tongue in public. We all know what it means, to be fat, to fail.

Boys don't go for fat girls. They talk about wanting 'real women', but what they mean is big tits. Not thighs, not bellies, not fat bums. They want skin and bone.