Every girl is beautiful.

Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.

For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.

Putting yourself first means you will never be last!

Stand up for yourself by not standing yourself up.

I’m not talking about the blood ecstasy. I’m talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She...

You are a fine piece of china. Don’t let anyone treat you like a paper plate.

Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?

No one can repair your self-esteem for you. Your spouse cannot fix it. Your parents cannot fix it. Your boss cannot fix it. No amount of success or beauty enhancements can fix it. You have...

Folks fall down all the time.. The key is to get back up ASAP

That’s not me talking, it’s your inner voice. I’d attempt the accent, only I don’t speak low self-esteem. It’s a language I’ve never needed to learn.

[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.

Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in a graveyard, in a scarcely dug grave, only recently inhabited by withered flesh....