Look around you at the people you spend the most time with and realize that your life can’t rise any higher than your friendships.

In spite of her desire for a contained universe, her life felt scattered, full of many small moments, without great purpose. That is what she thought, though what is most untrustworthy about our natures and...

The pathway to peace is an in describable journey of facing ones darkness, to find ones light. If they told you it’s easier to give up, you met a fool; if they told you; it’s...

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

You can’t own a human being. You can’t lose what you don’t own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that?...

Mirrors are liars. They tell us what we expect to see.

How you see and depict yourself will be the exact way people will treat you–Period, Think your worth millions, people will treat you like millions, think pennies, get treated like pennies

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

If Cinderella were given a single shining epiphany (instead of a fairy godmother), she would have realized: “This is my father’s house. This is my father’s estate. I am the rightful heiress to everything here!”...

Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them.

During the year of 2015 stay grounded. How? Each night before you go to sleep, write a word/expression capturing a positive state of mind on a sheet of paper. Fold the paper in a V...

I do” to someone else.

Your greatest enemy is your own relection

I don’t want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have...

If someone like this were to like me, to like my comedy, and to like the way I conduct myself professionally, it would mean that I suck as a person.

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.

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,...

The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice.

Stop living in the shadows of another. You’ve been given everything needed to live a purposed filled life. Don’t be a second rate version of yourself.

Speed eliminates all doubt. Am I smart enough? Will people like me? Do I really look all right in this plastic jumpsuit?

We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.

I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I’d have lain down and died waiting.

But the coconut is also a symbol of resilience, Samar. Even in the conditions where there’s very little nourishment and even less nurturance, it flourishes, growing taller than most of the plants around it.

I didn’t know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for ’em…

But giving up’s easy. You know what’s hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you’ve got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can’t.

You have to look in the mirror and do one of two things; love or hate who you see. So, be good to yourself – it’s all the esteem you have.

real love” you will ever experience.

It’s like a big circle. I’ve gone on a get-a-man crusade, but so far it’s been a disaster and I’m feeling as bad about myself as I ever have. I know I’m a great person...

When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand. Ideas actually begin to grow within us and come to life.

You’ve got to say what you mean and mean what you say…Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.

When this low self-worth is hidden, one can understand why the person becomes hypersensitive to the opinions of others and has a great deal of difficulty accepting criticism no matter how warranted or gently said.

Better Half.”The bravest woman I know?She is the reason I do what I do.She is The Single Woman.She’s me…and she’s you.

Self-esteem is the way you regard yourself as either being worth your mother’s while to care for you, protect you and keep you safe and alive, to be present for you when you need her...

I started creating;Myself From The Inside Out & My God I WishIHadDoneItSooner.

Face it―nobody cares.But so what? Their apathy doesn’t diminish your worth. Learn from it. Make it your job to care for those around you so they can’t say the same thing.

Being yourself is easy, if others will not accept you then focus on being a great person.

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...

For me, the times that I dressed provocatively had been empowering. It felt good. It’s those times that I felt comfortable in my own skin. Like really, really comfortable. And let’s face it, body self-esteem...

Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.

If your self-worth is based on anything other than your relationship with Christ, you are in big trouble.

Doing something nice for myself is not selfish.

Be a bit of a challenge; not because you’re playing games but because you realize you’re worth the extra effort.

I don’t mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the daywithout hurting other people, then you are a good person…

Why do we want other people to like us, even if we don’t really care about them all that much?

Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.

Settling is not a destination, rather a vacation rental staring at an endless sea that dares you to cross its waves.

But all those weeks with Nate, however fake they might have been, did do one thing for me. Whether the rest of world saw me that way, I knew now that I was strong, and...

And then I decided to be pro me. Be pro you to the end. No more cutting up myself and serving up myself like pieces of a pie for everyone’s tasteless palates. And that doesn’t...

My hands tend to be full enough dealing with people who hate me for who I am. Concentrate too hard on the millions of people who hate you for what you are and you’re likely...

Live life with great humility.