You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.

Brenda, do you know God loves you? He really does. To Him, you’re perfect, absolutely perfect. You always have been.

You have not failed completely.” Stamp, stamp.

The last thing the consumer index wants men and women to do is to figure out how to love one another: The $1.5 trillion retail-sales industry depends on sexual estrangement between men and women, and...

Are you what others say and think you are? Or are you who you are regardless of what others say and think?

All of the years I spent trying to be someone you could be proud of would have been better spent being proud of myself for who I already was.

Of course our most important role as a parent is to have our children know that they are loved and worthy. Even more importantly, it’s to help them discover, and fan the flames of whatever...

You your own best thing, Sethe. You are.

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....

How we relate with other people is dependent on how we rate ourselves and what we think about ourselves.

You will not invest in yourself if you think you are not worth it

Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However,...

I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts–and they never fail to have a fatal effect on my self-esteem. When I find myself sitting at...

I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifting landscape is really only ever a reflection of the self. Our capacity for attachment determines the kind...

you’re Worth More Than Gold

Of course gratitude should be expressed…But that does not mean to kill your self-esteem.

In yourself right now is all the place you’ve got.

I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don’t believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view.

Be your OWN celebrity!

The French girls would tell you, to believe that you were pretty would make you so.

Mirrors are useless for reflecting who you are.

What others are doing or accomplishing is irrelevant to your growth.

The subconscious mind is shielding or showing numerous potential paths, based on what it determines would represent a consistent reality for you.

It is humiliating to realize that when you drive yourself underground, when you fake who you are, often you do so for people you do not even like or respect.

Our attitudes are the results of who we believe ourselves to be.

This book probably makes it seem like I hate myself and everything I do. But that’s not totally true. I mostly just hate every person I’ve ever been. I’m actually fine with myself right now.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

I am beginning to measure myself in strength, not pounds. Sometimes in smiles.

Your mission: feel good about who you are, what you do, how you think, and how you look–without needing anybody’s approval!

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate...

In her 20′s, a woman’s breasts double her self-esteem. In her 40′s, they halve it.

There’s no weakness as great as false strength.

Self respect, self worth and self love, all start with self. Stop looking outside of yourself for your value.

Live for what you love, and die for what you’re unwilling to live without…

Your “Self” was created in the image and likeness of your creator. How can you believe that your “self” can be improved? Self improvement is contradictory to your creation.

Believe in the strength of your own resolve.

Extra miles, extensive preparation and exhaustive efforts usually show astonishing results.

If one does well in life compliment; but do not bow down to their success.

The secret to life is to have no fear. When you can let go of what others think about you, how something is going to turn out, or how your past will affect your future,...

The only love you have to prove in life is your love of God and helping others. Anyone that can’t see that has proven themselves to be unworthy of your time because why would you...

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humor and...

Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.

Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.

I am the Chosen One. I know, because I chose myself, myself. But to be fair, it’s not like there was another choice. It was either to be me, or not to be. And I...

Never let the thoughts of self-unworthiness re-arrange your prepared passion for failure. You can do it even if others say you can’t. But you cannot do it if you tell yourself you can’t.

Rewriting the negative beliefs you have learned is the essence of becoming the director of your life.

When you continually worry about what other people think of you, they own you.

Many Christians… find themselves defeated by the most psychological weapon that Satan uses against them. This weapon has the effectiveness of a deadly missile. Its name? Low self-esteem. Satan’s greatest psychological weapon is a gut...