Quotes About Self-worth

No one on earth is so boring and insignificant that he or she is not worth writing or reading about...One thing's for sure—no one but you can be the hero of your story.

I wish I was back in the sixth grade. I was important there. I'm nothing here. I'm a turd.

I deserve no punishment at all for being who I am.

Girls who land broken are easy prey.

For the love of Betsy, who talks like that? No wonder we were at the loser table.

we all just do the best we can. And that's enough.

The whole world is sick...we've all got this pathetic need to be seen. We're a bunch of fucking toddlers trying to get attention.

I've always been surprised at how it stings, the laughter of small men. The smaller the man, the more the laughter hurts, as if saying, I may be nothing, but you are less.

I never wanted to fall in love. Only stupid girls compromised themselves that way, and I was too smart to sell myself short.

I was just another stupid girl waiting for Prince Charming to give me true love's first kiss, and I hated myself for it.

What is perceived as normal. That makes it other people's failings. Deficits. Not yours. Who the hell sets the standards, huh? Who gets to say how we are supposed to be? Or who we are supposed to be? And how dare anyone make you feel inadequate for being who you are? It's not okay. It pisses me off.

You don't get to pick which parts of me you find acceptable and throw away what you don't.

You are more capable of being loved than you understand. And—Celeste, this is important—you nurture and love and protect more than anyone I have known. Or could know. Don't take that away from me. From us.

Sometimes love is not enough, and it doesn't matter how much you want it. Want him. And even if nobody else compares to that person, it doesn't mean that you're supposed to be with him.

He had no skills or smarts or education to distinguish him, which made him just the sort to be taken with the notion that he belonged to a master race

I wanted to see who I was, without using another person's love for me as a measurement of my value.

I will shrink myself no longer to make any human feel secure

The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.

Well, I just don't want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing more. Not a monster, not a bogeyman. Nothing but another reason to feel better about yourself. Understand that it's just a person - not worth devoting any nightmares to.

She believed she was not significant enough to cast a shadow of her own.

If I stop to think about fans, or bestselling, or not bestselling, or good reviews, or not-good reviews, it just becomes too much. It's like staring at the mirror all day.

but these talents could not make up for the fact that she did not possess a fair complexion, and so a string of men had rejected her to her face.

I've always felt in someone's shadow, even though I don't have to compare myself to brothers who are smarter, or to sisters who are prettier. There's no escape from the shadows that mount, inexorably, in this darkening season. Nor can we escape the shadows our families cast. That said, there are times I miss the pleasant shade a companion might provide.

Always at the end of a queue, in the shadow of others, she believed she was not significant enough to cast a shadow of her own.