Quotes About Self-worth

Ne voliš da budeš na smetnji, ne voliš da te ko krivo pogleda, ne voliš da ti iko ružnu rije? kaže. Kako onda misliš živjeti?

Ali mu ne dam zadovoljstvo da se opere mojom grubom rije?i, toliko nije zaslužio.

Maloprije sam bio siguran da sam joj potreban i da ?e to re?i ne štede?i ponos. Mislio sam da sam nadmo?niji. A sad sam želio da ?ujem bilo šta o sebi, lijepo ili ružno, povoljno ili nepovoljno, ali sam to želio s bijesom, gotovo s mržnjom, osje?aju?i da mi se izmakla, da nisam za nju neophodnost.

I caught myself feeling that vile need for others to be grateful to us, to show themselves as small and dependent, because that is what creates our favor, nurtures it, and heightens the importance of our deeds and kindness.

when a man can't be proud of himself, he looks to the woman. If she's not something to be proud of, she'll pay double for both of them. I learned that the hard way.

Each time someone told her, "You have such a pretty face," she felt as though they wanted to sever her head from her body, to discard the meat of her and leave the small round disk of her face as her one saving quality. She was supposed to be grateful for his attention

Men's attention and approval were borrowed gifts she was no longer sure she wanted.

You're not a one hundred dollar bill, not everyone is going to like you.

In my opinion, this school and its contemporaries were nothing more than cheap merchants of social status, selling an inflated sense of self-worth to middle-class boys of no particular merit. I will, however, grant them something. Without the first school, I would not have ended up at the second. Without the second, I would not have attended St Oswald's. Without St Oswald's, I would not have met Finn. Without Finn, there would be no story.

I always thought it was the saddest and most devastating ending. How you could have these enormous dreams that never get met. How without knowing it you could just make yourself smaller over time. I don't want that to happen to me.

And specialness - everyone wants it. But Jesus, is it the most essential thing there is? Most people aren't talented. So what are they supposed to do - kill themselves?

I've always had a fear of being small and ordinary. "How can I just have this one life?

My job does not define me.

But, she knew, you didn't have to marry your soulmate, and you didn't even have to marry an Interesting. You didn't always need to be the dazzler, the firecracker, the one who cracked everyone up, or made everyone want to sleep with you, or be the one who wrote and starred in the play that got the standing ovation. You could cease to be obsessed with the idea of being interesting. Anyway, she knew, the definition could change; it had changed, for her.

No one had ever told me I was not a poor relation. They meant to steal from me and keep me believing I was beholden to them.

No matter how hard you worked, there was always going to be somebody out there who thought you were fuckup.

I've been hit on plenty of times, mostly by men with little finesse who thought what was between their legs made up for what they lacked between their ears.

So you reach this moment where finally, finally, it all shifts, you find a way to open up your hands and let go. When what used to matter stops breaking you so fucking hard; when you accept that empty place in your heart will always be there because only one person can fill it, and you get up anyway because goddamn it, one person who does not love you enough should never make you incapable of moving forward.

gente que piensa que su valor está relacionado con su masa corporal. Hombres obsesionados con el gimnasio, y mujeres que piensan que morirse de hambre es sexy.

once a woman is "able to stand alone"—as certainly the Tribune's star, healed by Dr. Leger, could boast—"then she will not make an imperfect man her god . . . Then, if she finds what she needs in Man embodied, she will know how to love, and be worthy of being loved.

As much as I don't care about those things, I think it's human nature to not want to feel totally insignificant.

I've been told my whole life that I've got all the power. But it's only now that I'm beginning to believe it. My days of selling junk food and perfume are over. If the world is going to listen to me, I better start saying things that are worth hearing.

But the closer I got to my own marriage and maternity, the more I felt like I was only as praiseworthy as my healthy womb. Why was I the only one who seemed to see it this way?

Riley Carlson: So I guess I know what you wanted to tell me. I mean, you made it pretty clear that you don't want to go out with an average girl. Marc Hudson: That's right, I don't. I want to go out with YOU. There's nothing average about you, Riley.