Quotes About Self-worth

No one needs to see us for us to exist. No one needs to love us for us to exist. The sky is filled with light. The world is full of wonders.

You are strong enough to sing as you wish, not as your pain has forced to. You aren't your hurt. You're other than that. You are not the broken things you've been.

My imperfections make me less mournable.

But I ask you, wouldn't it be worse if I were perfect ? My imperfections make me less mournable.

Sovrana : — Sono solo inutile, non stupida. Il Sovrano invece è inutile e stupido, e perciò è un uomo felice, come voi potete capire... così riesce anche a essere buono, mentre io no: io sono cattiva... molto cattiva...

You can require respect, ask for tolerance but you cannot demand validation

Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect; it makes you feel inadequate.

My mom doesn't know what it's like to be less than perfect, how people zoom in on that until it's all they see. Maybe because it weirds them out...or maybe because it makes them feel better about themselves. People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

I don't like the eyes. You get so tired, don't you? Of being looked at. Maybe some women feel flattered, but I've always felt the moment a man's eyes settle on me, he's halfway to feeling he can do anything.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

Lehet, hogy valaha szebb n?re bukkansz nálam – bár hajdan azt hajtogattad, én se vagyok éppen rút! –, de senki szívében nem találsz majd akkora szenvedélyt, mint az enyémben. Azt hiszed, számít más? Semmi, csak ez.

Beauty remains virtue if the others see and admire it and this is enough for you.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure about you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us.

There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

Women are still in emotional bondage as long as we need to worry that we might have to make a choice between being heard and being loved.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

That should be my epitaph when I die 'she did not have to do it'.

havde givet mig dyb modvilje mod mig selv: der var ikke nogen, der kunne elske mig, jeg kunne ikke få nogen til at synes om mig, jeg var kun til at smide væk, afvise. Derfor oplevede jeg alle opbrud, alle genvordigheder, al adskillelse som forstødelse. Bare jeg kom for sent til toget, begyndte tingen af røre på sig. Jeg var et mislykket menneske og derfor mislykkedes alt for mig,

Don't wait until you find someone. You are someone.

Just because someone doesn't like what you do doesn't mean no one else will. A person's opinion is not The Truth, it's their truth.

Comparschläger: noun; a self-inflicted poison. Activates when you compare yourself to others and end up feeling worthless. Analogous to Goldschläger, the disgusting cinnamon-flavored schnapps with gold flakes that, when ingested in large quantities, makes you puke.