Love yourself.Love who you are.

I don’t want someone to believe my lies, I need someone to accept my truths.

Respect is a kind of magic too, you know.

When you’re different, sometimes you don’t see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn’t.

That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending – performing. You...

Having the courage to stand up for yourself is like bringing swords to a stick fight.

Without emotional response, love is an act of self-deceiving self-satisfaction by an unsatisfied self.

At least a third of a woman’s life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition–so that women will only feel...

Perhaps the most extraordinary popular delusion about violence of the past quarter-century is that it is caused by low self-esteem. That theory has been endorsed by dozens of prominent experts, has inspired school programs designed...

On any day – in any given event – you have to believe in yourself and back yourself 100%

Things happened to the worst, I’ve lost many things and I’ve got many things but the precious thing I have with me right now is “having me still”. I love myself. I love myself unconditionally....

There is always a curve n the road when it comes to a relationship,don’t let others bring you down to their level because of their own unhappiness and insecurities that they have within themselves.

If you seek happiness through someone else’s perspective, you might as well get comfortable in sorrow.

The trick for introverts is to honor their styles instead of allowing themselves to be swept up by prevailing norms.

Acknowledgement is possession. When you acknowledge, think or have conviction in something, it actually will come true.

Nothing Can Substitute Attitude Keep It Up

I’ve been depressed all day. I feel like such a fraud. People say how special and wonderful I am. I think,”Can’t they tell? “—Nita, September 18, 1984

You are magnificent beyond measure, perfect in your imperfections, and wonderfully made.

It’s hard loving those who don’t much like themselves: “If you’re so great, why would you think I’m so great.

Last time I talked to her she didn’t sound like herself. She’s depressed. It’s awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they’re no good.

It has nothing to do with who I am as compared to everyone else. It has everything to do with who I am in companionship with God.

I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.

Even the models we see in magazines wish they could look like their own images.

Don’t belittle yourself. Be BIG yourself.

Bad habits are like having a sumo wrestler in the back of your canoe rowing the opposite direction.

Maybe this is a second doctoral program: advanced learning about life, death, marriage, mothering, family, faith, patience, prayer. My degree will be ‘Doctor of Life,’ and I will be in good company. So many of...

Be self-indulgent, and those who are also self-indulgent will like you. Tear your neighbor to pieces, and the other neighbors will laugh. But if you beat your soul, all souls will cry out.

Self motivation leads to acceptance of thyself.

Most people do not erode their self-esteem over big issues but over small ones, little acts of betrayal and hypocrisy forgotten (repressed) very quickly. But the computer in your subconscious mind forgets nothing. It records...

I will never attend an anti-war rally; if you have a peace rally, invite me.

I believe this: You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. you...

I don’t need to be tame, because dragons choose their partner by themselves.

The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.

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...

Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.

If a woman defined herself solely by the man she was with—and vice versa—the world would be a very shallow and insipid place, indeed.

I know how mirrors work. They’re all in league with the cosmetics trade. They tell a woman lies. Drawing her gaze from one imagined flaw to another, until all she sees is a constellation of...

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

Be yourself, you’re already fully equipped to succeed at that.

We search for happiness across every landscape, if only we knew that the seed in which it first grows, is planted within ourselves…

Not all who demand your attention desire your happiness, many merely seeking a conveyance to their own. It is entirely easy when wrapped up with the petty to miss what is possible and what rows...

Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself.

Learning is a matter of gathering knowledge; wisdom is applying that knowledge.

Wetting one’s pants is no kind of self-esteem builder.

Conformity begins the moment you ignore how you feel for acceptance.

When you only know your faults and failures, you allow yourself and others to downgrade your dreams and belittle your wants.

When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go...

Self-love is often equated with self-esteem but when it makes you blind to your own faults and gives you an inflated ego, it is time to introspect.

I am small.So are stars from a distance. It’s all a matter of perspective.

In youth, it was a way I had,To do my best to please.And change, with every passing ladTo suit his theories.But now I know the things I knowAnd do the things I do,And if you...