If you don’t know what you want, you’ll never find it.If you don’t know what you deserve, you’ll always settle for less.You will wander aimlessly, uncomfortably numb in your comfort zone, wondering how life has...

Dont try to be useful. Try to be yourself; that is enough, and that makes all the difference.

What is the good of being an island, if you are not a volcanic island?

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself...

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something.

Our own self-esteem is something we can actually twist in whatever way we want.

If your confidence is based purely on the way you look, you’re setting yourself up for a) years of fretting about how to appear perfect, and b) anxiety / despair as the wrinkles inevitably set...

Often people that settle in life are those that only do what they can with what they have and where they are. Never settle for someone that didn’t know your worth from the beginning, or...

I am getting tired of feeling disappointed. I am getting tired of other people trying to always take my kindness for weakness, I sure don’t deserve it. I should assume responsibility and become cold to...

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Endow yourself with healthy self-esteem. What is the feeling tone in your life that radiates in you and makes you shine, that makes you feel whole, that makes you feel your heart? That feeling tone,...

Kisses were better than potions.

Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…

Yes, Eleanor loathed herself and yet required praise, which she then never believed.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you care about what people think about you, you will end up being their slave. Reject and pull your own rope.

When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.

Listen to the rhythm of your life. March to the beat of your own sound. Your true self is what others are attracted to.

You’re not as invisible as you think.

Home is in my hair, my lips, my arms, my thighs, my feet and my hands. I am my own home. And when I wake up crying in the morning, thinking of how lonely I...

I looked at him nonplussed. I realized that I have spent so many years being on a diet that the idea that you might actually need calories to survive has been completely wiped out of...

Secularity is a way of being dependent on the responses of our milieu. The secular or false self is the self which is fabricated, as Thomas Merton says, by social compulsions. ‘Compulsive’ is indeed the...

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...

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.

Self-care is possessing enough self-awareness to invoke repeated patterns of being, that harmoniously correct the behaviors of over-functioning for others while under-functioning for yourself.

I may not be the prettiest butterfly in the garden to seek but, I am still there with my wings.