Quotes About Self-worth

Men, if you are a virgin, there is nothing wrong with that. Don't let no one make you think you a loser because of that.

Women if you are a virgin, hold that. Reserve that. No need to rush and if a dude can't wait, forget him.

I am not a tool , so don't treat me as if I am one

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

What sort of love is permeated by jealousy? You are jealous because you are unaware that everything you need is inside you.

Note to self: being Kurt's son, being an ex-mental patient, getting into Harvard, having written a book, and being a doctor are all things that in and of themselves do not make a life. If you lean on them too hard, you'll find that there's not much there. But if you add up a lot of things that aren't in and of themselves enough, it almost starts to add up to something....

If you're going to survive in this world, here's what you need to know: you are who you are, not what people think you are.

From "I Exist" in Every Lyric Tells A Story. His mother thought he was a loser His father thought he was a bum Plenty of times he felt like running But he really had nowhere to run He fought it with everything he had With his brains and with his fists And whenever anyone told him he was nobody He'd tell himself "I exist

But what if there is nothing "wrong" with you at all?

Time was politicians would lose their lives. Today they give up their honor, dignity and self-worth, willingly.

Well, I am something, Ma, you hissed, I am not nothing, I am somebody and I know what I want from life and I know what to do to get it. I will provide for myself.

I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

I don't mind that I'm fat. You still get the same money.

She not no fool, Lilith tell herself. She not a sleeping princess and Robert Quinn is not no king or prince. He just a man with broad shoulders and black hair who call her lovey and she like that more than her own name. She don't want the man to deliver her, she just want to climb in the bed and feel he wrap himself around her.

In the end, it really doesn't matter what others think of me. All for Jesus, my Audience of One.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Why should you feel guilty if you refuse to be intimidated by [someone] who persists in standing in the way of your being that best self or who is "hurt" when you finally manage it? . . . The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be. No one owns you, no matter what your relationship.

if readers have a sincere desire to make life miserable for themselves, they might learn to compare themselves to other people. For those unfamiliar with this practice, he provides a few exercises. The first one displays full-length pictures of a man and a woman who embody ideal physical beauty by contemporary media standards. Readers are instructed to take their own body measurements, compare them to those superimposed on the pictures of the attractive specimens, and dwell on the differences.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss." We begin to feel this bliss when messages previously experienced as critical or blaming begin to be seen for the gifts they are: opportunities to give to people who are in pain.

If the way we evaluate ourselves leads us to feel shame, and we consequently change our behavior, we are allowing our growing and learning to be guided by self-hatred.

We only feel dehumanized when we get trapped in the derogatory images of other people or thoughts of wrongness about ourselves. As author and mythologist Joseph Campbell suggested, "'What will they think of me?' must be put aside for bliss." We begin to feel this bliss when messages previously experienced as critical or blaming begin to be seen for the gifts they are: opportunities to give to people who are in pain.

Mi dolor es un fallo que no puedo permitirme. La prueba irrefutable de una inteligencia débil

Although beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, the feeling of being beautiful exists solely in the mind of the beheld.

The way that other people judge me is none of my business.