Quotes About Self-worth

People who have earned no pride in themselves, are content to be proud of their cities through other men.

when you feel less superior it seems you feel more lonely.

The trouble was that she could not see herself without money, and it seems never to have occurred to her that she could earn it.

No lady bearing the name of Mrs Darcy will be censured, or slighted, or despised, madam. Certainly not at your instigation. You are not so high you can browbeat me.' I

You do best at what you enjoy doing most. It's how you feel about yourself that counts most.

It's none of my business what other people think of me.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

You can be pleased with nothing when you are not pleased with yourself.

None strive to know their proper merit But strain for wisdom, beauty, spirit And lose the praise that is their due When they've the impossible in view

And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

Something had been confirmed: I was worth giving a shit about; I was getting to be a successful sick person. Sick is when they say something. Of course, I had been sick for five years. But now, now maybe I was really sick. Maybe I wasgetting good at this, good enough to scare people. Maybe I would almost die, and balance just there, at the edge of the cliff, wavering while they gasped and clutched one another's arms, and win acclaim for my death-defying stunts.

When you believe that you are not worthwhile in and of yourself, in the back of your mind you also begin to believe that life is not worthwhile in and of itself. It is only worthwhile insofar as it relates to your crusade. It is a kamikaze mission.

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

We know we need, and so we acquire and eat and eat, past the point of bodily fullness, trying to sate a greater need. Ashamed of this, we turn skeletons into goddesses and look to them as if they might teach us how to not-need.

And then the horror sets in. All that time I wasn't crazy; I was, in fact, crazy. It's hopeless. I'm hopeless. Bipolar disorder. Manic depression. I'm sick. It's true. It isn't going to go away. All my life, I've thought that if I just worked hard enough, it would. I've always thought that if I just pulled myself together, I'd be a good person, a calm person, a person like everyone

The sense that we are only the sum of our parts—whatever we achieve, however we appear, whatever we own, however we try to prove ourselves—is not a good sense. It's an existential crisis: Do I even exist? If you take away the masks I wear, is there only blank space underneath?

when a woman is thin in this culture, she proves her worth, in a way that no great accomplishment, no stellar career, nothing at all can match.

We deserve more. Vastly more. Sufficiency, plenty, abundance. Not the denial of body that is no more than a metaphor for our denial of self.

Soon madness has worn you down. It's easier to do what it says than argue. In this way, it takes over your mind. You no longer know where it ends and you begin. You believe anything it says. You do what it tells you, no matter how extreme or absurd. If it says you're worthless, you agree. You plead for it to stop. You promise to behave. You are on your knees before it, and it laughs.

So rare that we are told that we are doing just great, and good enough. So if you are doing all you can, I want you to know I'm proud of you! And I wanted to pass that along. And I hope you feel it, and that you know you're doing ok, 'cause you know. Despite what everyone else is saying, you'll know, and I hope you do!

A smart girl leaves before she is left

That which can be purchases at a shop is easily left in a taxi; that which you carry inside you is difficult, though not impossible, to misplace" -Agatha Swanburne

The children never troubled themselves about whether they were fixable or not, as they did not consider themselves broken in the first place. You may decide for yourself what to think about it, but it is worth remembering that often people who are told they need fixing are perfectly fine as they are. It is our own narrow notion of how things ought to be that is truly in need of repair.

Agatha Swanburn - "Never underestimate a Swanburn girl, for a Swanburn girl never underestimates herself.