Quotes About Self-worth

I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being Black and/or a woman, it means that other people's craziness has not managed to make me crazy.

I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

Do you seek Alcides' equal? None is, except himself.

I boiled every equation down to these simple terms: was I lovable or was I ugly?

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you....forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

It's not my fault that my awesomeness intimidates people.

I might never be a cover girl, but I was a girl who could cover it all.

But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

You are not an impostor," Sam Hallowell told me. "You are not there because of luck, or because you happened to be in the right place at the right moment, or because someone like me had connections. You are there because you are you, and that is a remarkable accomplishment in itself.

I wondered what it would be like to not give a damn about what people thought of you.

I'm sure I'm worth a lot more dead than alive—the sum of the parts equals more than the whole.

You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

It is such a heady rush to be the object of someone's attention in a good way, not as a freak, that I keep forgetting to hide.

it had taken Jack a moment to realise it wasn't weight he'd lost during these eight months but pride

they accepted any baggage that came with you and made you believe you were more than you actually were

Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a strangehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future

But let's be real. When you've already failed at killing yourself, anything else you might screw up seems minor.

It is not that she isn't active or that she doesn't eat healthily. It's just how she is made, and if that isn't everyone's standard of perfect, then maybe they just have to revise their damn standard.

If you ask me who Ruth Jefferson was a month ago, I would have said she's a good nurse, and she's a good mother. But now I have people telling me I wasn't a good nurse. And if I can't put a casserole on the table and cloth on your back, then I have to second guess myself as a mother too. If you don't let me do this, if you don't let me take care of you, then I don't know who i'm suppose to be anymore.

That…sucks." I shrug. "It is what it is," I tell her. "The point is, if someone abandons you, it may be less about you and more about them.

I suppose there's only so many times you can take being rebuffed before you need some validation.

Boy, she told Louie, don't you let nobody tell you who you can't be.

forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future." I