Why don’t we learn about the mental health which affects every minute of our lives? … Where is the school for learning [about] positive mental health?

A sad truth is that we don’t know what we really believe! We don’t know how we operate. We don’t know what is holding us back. We don’t know why we do what we do.

Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

The most delightful surprise in life is to suddenly recognize your own worth.

There is no dictionary in the world that includes the words ’skinny’ or ‘fat’ under the definitions of ‘beautiful’ and ‘ugly’. So, focus on being healthy and stop the self-criticism.

Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.

If you think you’re worthless, you’re not – but your limiting self-beliefs are. Change them.

The way you think about yourself determines your reality. You are not being hurt by the way people think about you. Many of those people are a reflection of how you think about yourself.

for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world.

Real self-worth comes from mastery, from getting good at something. It doesn’t matter what. Then you don’t have to worry about empty compliments. You don’t worry about what other people think. You have self-respect.

Telling yourself you like the way you look is easy. Believing it is an entirely different kettle of whales.

I’ve always been told my presence brightened up any room. One might think that went doubly for dank underground cell.” (Jace)

We tend to think that it’s up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn’t ever work, and for the following reason:If you have a hard time knowing what it is you really need, then how on earth can you logically expect someone else to know?

Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it’s not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you’ve been to. I’m not afraid...

Focusing on who you are, and pursuing opportunities to improve your abilities, allows you to be in acceptance of yourself. This makes you a beautiful person who could care less about what others think of you.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

I just figured that was the life I picked, so I had to make the most of it.

People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people’s minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues.

Don’t water your weeds

Life is an act at a given moment.

To strengthen the connection between your conscious and subconscious, is to gain access to a map and compass, as you travel through parallel worlds.

A bully hides his fears with fake bravado. That is the opposite of self-assertiveness.

What would it be like to look in the mirror and actually accept what you see? Not loathe the reflection, or despise it, or be resigned to it? But to like it?

The articles were extremely eye-opening. Not just in Teen Vogue but in Seventeen and CosmoGirl as well. They were all about being yourself, staying natural, loving your body as is, and going green! The messages were the exact opposite of Vik and Viv’s.Hmmmmm. Frankie turned to face the full-length mirror that was up against the...

I don’t see the me that you see. I wish for just a lit­tle bit I could climb into you and then you could climb into me and then we could tell each other what we saw there.

Stop spending so much time trying to prove what you already know to people who don’t really matter. It just makes you look insecure and lacking self-confidence.

Remember: If someone’s trying to pull you down that means they’re already beneath you.

Why should her lover, just because he is male, be in a position to judge her against other women? Why must she need to know her position and hate needing to, and hate knowing? Why should his reply have such exaggerated power? And it does. He does not know that what he says will affect...

Just be yourself — it’s the only way it can work.

The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the threat.

Image is everything, self image that is.

Your self-esteem is a notch below Kafka.

I’m Dylan. I’m so cool. I want to date myself, but I don’t know how! You want to date me instead? You’re so lucky!

If you put a small value on yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

You cannot wish for happiness but you can work towards your life goals and create lasting happiness.

I realized that I don’t want to try to change you in order to be with you. That’s not fair to you. And I deserve to share my life with someone who’s on the same path as me, and right now, that’s not you. But I need you to know that you have been such...

Worry is like a roller coaster ride that you think will take you somewhere, but it never does.

God never uses one approach to the get his job done in the world. Each soul has its own way of being reached. He has put inside of each of us an unique song, that only another heart can hear clearly. To wish you were someone else robs another human being of the special blessings,...

There is no VALUE JUDGMENT more important to man – no factor more decisive in his psychological development and motivation – than the ESTIMATE he passes on himself”. It works on the psyche either in the negative or the positive but it works!

People who do not value you are worthless and those who do are priceless.

I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

When our thoughts, at times, wander into darkness… remember we are human and have been imbued with free will to choose the light.

I wear makeup and I don dramatic attire because I like control. I’m not interested in controlling others but I’m invested in strict self-governance. This is why I don’t do many face-to-face interviews. I don’t like being caught off-guard. It all goes back to that attempt to create order amidst disorder. One of the most...

It’s time for the Boy Scouts to open its membership to LGBT adults once and for all. Only then can they claim to have anything to teach our children.

It can be hard to hold onto your vision because other people will want you to be like they are. But your life has a course of its own, and only you can walk it.

originality and a feeling of one’s own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle.

I cannot conceive of a greater loss than the loss of one’s self-respect. Decedents of the beautiful women that fought so hard for centuries to be equal and not objects of men’s will, only their achievement to die in vain. As today’s woman single desire is to be any men’s object by any means on...

There is a light in every soul.

Do not despise your gift. We are all valuable.

Never be jealous of anyone.You are special with unique talents for a specific mission.