Things are changing, but this time I’m not afraid. This time I know who I am. This time I’ve made the right choice and fighting for the right team. I feel safe. Confident

If someone does not consider those around them to be valuable and hold only themselves in high regard, they too have a very bad self-esteem.

We all need a cheering committee and parents are a child’s most important fans!

I don’t understand women that call themselves a “bitch”. It doesn’t empower a woman. Rather, it reveals to everyone that you were deeply hurt at one time. Because of the pain your still carrying, you...

If a guy can’t even handle my words, I don’t think he can handle me as a person.

The price tag you put on yourself decides your worth. Underestimating yourself will cost you dearly.

How can you get through to yourself?

If you believe that you can use sex to shore up your fragile self-esteem by stealing someone else’s, we feel sorry for you, because this will never work to build a solid sense of self...

The desire to be cool is—ultimately—the desire to be rescued.

Love yourself, or no one else will love you better

True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return…

How easy would it be to let the words uncurl from my tongue and glide slowly into the space between us? Let them light up the room in bright-orange neon: Here’s your answer! Here’s what...

Si la liberación no está dentro de mí, no está, para mi, en ninguna parte.

Oh. Right.”

The subconscious mind is aware of the many worlds unfolding in each moment.

Chances are, when you were young, you were told, in effect, “Listen, kid, here is the news: life is not about you. Life is not about what you want. What you want is not important....

You can overcome whatever is going on around you if you believe in the light that lives within you.

I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

III. I have often wondered how it should come to pass, that every man loving himself best, should more regard other men’s opinions concerning himself than his own. For if any God or grave master...

Don’t be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.

A low self-image is usually not based upon facts; it’s mismanaged memory.

Beauty discrimination has become necessary, not from the perception that women will not be good enough, but that they will be, as they have been, twice as good.

In Tulsa, a girl would no sooner have run around with unstraightened hair than she would have run around naked. It would have been worse than running around naked, letting everyone see your naps (40).

Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the lives they lead.

We underestimate the power of our own mind – for both good and bad. If we can learn to control our mindset and our responses to the adverse things in our lives, we can absolutely...

It’s not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it’s what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!

You do not need to pay attention to those voices within you that create pain, or make you feel less competent, smart or able.

The self-esteem one acquires and a well-earned feeling of one’s strength are the only consolation in this world. Income, after all, most brutes have that.

To be able to live each day with honor, respect and dignity is the greatest achievement of all.

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

If you truly feel that self esteem and motivation have to happen first before you can make changes in your life, then we’ll probably be sharing walkers at a retirement home as we talk over...

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.

If you are going to be successful in creating the life of your dreams, you have to believe that you are capable of making it happen. Whether you call it self-esteem, self-confidence or self-assurance, it...

As a basic step of self-esteem, learn to treat as the mark of a cannibal any man’s demand for your help. To demand it is to claim that your life is his property – and...

You are not the family you were born into. Your family is not the making of you, God is!

What you make of yourself and your future is entirely up to you.

As a young gay African, I have been conditioned from an early age to consider my sexuality a dangerous deviation from my true heritage as a Somali by close kin and friends. As a young...

Even with the Boy Scouts admitting openly gay youths, its exclusion of LGBT adults teaches our children by example what the organization really thinks about them — and what they should think about themselves.

Never rate yourself too low; you will be whoever you think you can be provided you are willing to pay the price!

I don’t know why, but people seem to be fascinated to learn how some members of society fall through the cracks. I think it’s partly that feeling that… it could happen to anyone. But I...

Let me ask you something, in all the years that you have…undressed in front of a gentleman has he ever asked you to leave? Has he ever walked out and left? No? It’s because he...

Each individual has a special calling and responsibility.

I love me. I love my uniqueness.

All positive interactions with other human beings involve, to some degree, the experience of visibility– that is, the experience of being seen and understood.

Through my pain and sorrow, God has prepared me to share His word with others in a way that was made just for me.

Drug cartels have taken the driver’s seat, training our youngmen and women on how best to self destruct, while the largercommunity watches on helplessly as these bands of renegades leadour people towards the path of...

But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in order to save this world, she neither noticed nor cared...

I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.

She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn’t offer any helpful excuses when she was berating herself for never knowing what to say to people. There was nothing more...

My hair is not the shiniest of bobsMy eyes are not the brightest in the roomMy figure will not get me modeling jobsMy smile will not bring young boys to their doom.But do I cry...