Self Worth Quotes

“When you stop respecting yourself, the world starts disrespecting you.”
― Sanu Sharma, अर्को देशमा [Arko Deshma]

“Be patient. Creating something good takes time. So take your time.”
― Jacky Fitt, How to Be in Business: Build the Mindset and Marketing to Adapt and Succeed as a Startup

“I have a lot of friends who are positive life isn't worth living without True Love Forever. They're always on the prowl and sulk against the gods when they go to a party and don't fall in love. Women, especially, engage themselves in ghastly self-inflicted tortures for which they've been primed since childhood. After all, historically it's always been dreadful for women, and the logic given them was "It's going to be dreadful so you may as well learn to enjoy it.”
― Eve Babitz, Slow Days, Fast Company: The World, the Flesh, & L.A.

“To be great, be whole; exclude
Nothing, exaggerate nothing that is you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
The whole moon gleams in every pool,
Because it rides so high.”
― Fernando Pessoa, Poemas de Fernando Pessoa

“Don't bother pulling my string again-
Not behind those doll eyes anymore
I won't say what's expected, kid,
laugh at your tantrum on the floor

I'm just not looking at you, kid,
I'm not a piss-poor heart anymore;
Not going home with the lowest bid
Out of stock- your projection whore

I'm never going back to the toy box
Elevated up from the cellar-
home of the wish-washed pretty cocks
Out of the dark, preachin' Helen Keller

Bored with the coin-operated allure
I'm top shelf, kid, out of your reach
You can't afford to walk in the store
Turn around, kid, don't slip in bleach


-from 'Ragdoll$ & Riche$”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Confessions of a D3AD Petal

“He didn’t ruin me. I am who I am in spite of him.” “No. You’re who you are to spite him,” I countered. “Every time you make a choice based on what he would or wouldn’t do, you’re still giving him the power.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Left Behind

“…saving ourselves sometimes means hurting others, even if only in small ways, even if only temporarily. It’s mercy math: there’s a cost, but we count, too.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“There's nothing selfish about self-care.”
― Eleanor Brownn, The Other Serenity Prayer: Meditations on Self-Kindness

“I won’t let you use me to prove to yourself how worthless you are.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Glass

“Better to try to live free on your own terms than die for someone else's bloody dreams.”
― Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Minds

“Oftentimes we put this pressure on ourselves to live up to an expectation or standard that doesn’t even exist”
― Loren Cribbs, Wings to Rise above Divorce: Finding Forgiveness, Redemption, and Renewal during Turbulent Separations

“I pause, realizing I too am still battling life's bullies. We just call them by different names: stereotypes, biases, social expectations. Different names, the same result, leaving us with the feeling of being worthless.”
― Jessica K. Webb, Sweet Dreams: Twisted Reflections, Book 1

“He cried love like the shepard boy cried wolf.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“I can't do anything with your pretty bouquet of words, but watch them die.”
― Haig Moses, An Abundance of Apricots

“The world needs more misbehaved women”
― Glennon Doyle, Untamed

“He is figuratively always together because he is single-minded, and never allows anyone or anything close enough to divide him.”
― Mae Holloway, The Lost Princess of Oz: The Ozma Chronicles Book 2

“The more you know and love and respect your partner, the more vulnerable you are together, the better everything gets.”
― Lucy Score, Things We Hide from the Light

“When you start being immune to it, that’s when it’s time to get out. It’s the hurt, the caring that makes us good at our jobs”
― Lucy Score

“I am reborn. This is my dawn. Real life has just begun. Deliberate living. Conscious attention to your immediate environment and its concerns. examples include: a job, a task, a book, anything requiring efficient concentration. (Circumstance has no value. It is how one relates to a situation that has value. All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon….what it means to you).
The Great Holiness of FOOD, the Vital Heat.
Positivism, the Insurpassable Joy of the Life Aesthetic.
Absolute Truth and Honesty.
Reality.
Independence.
Finality-Stability-Consistency.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“(...) The people I chatted with in Kito's didn't seem to doubt that I'd been to the top of the Thumb; they just didn't mcuh care. (...) Less than a month after sitting on the summit of the Thumb, I was back in Boulder, nailing up siding on the Spruce Street Townhouses, the same condosI'd been framing when I left for Alaska. (...) It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it. When I decided to go to Alaska that April, like Chris McCandless, I was a raw youth who mistook passion for insight and acted according to an obscure, gap-ridden logic. I thought climbing the Devils Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of course, it changed almost nothing. But I came to appreciate that mountains make poor receptacles for dreams. And I lived to tell my tale.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“It took a thick skin to find a good man swimming in an ocean of losers.”
― Duncan Ralston, In Every Dark Corner

“We can come to count our own self as worthy of all goodness that life has to offer”
― Bola Abimbola, Daily Soul Bytes: For an Inspired Life

“The sun doesn’t reduce its heat to assuage the frigid moon.”
― Celia Aaron, The Bad Guy

“People will cast you as their villain. No good deed, no act of compassion or charity will change their mind, but it doesn’t make you a villain. Cut them loose. You don’t belong to them.”
― Addison Lane, Blackpines: The Antlers Witch: The Girl Who Grew Antlers

“Because you can be a lot of things in this world, but you can never be another person. That's the deal. You're stuck with yourself.”
― Sarah Hepola, Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget

“Self-love is not a form of narcissism or self-indulgence. It is a profound recognition of one's own worth, an unconditional acceptance of ourselves in entirety, with both strengths and weaknesses.”
― Marie Chieze, Palabras de Chamán: 50 Citas de Paching Hoé Lambaiho (Explore a Liberating Path to Fulfillment, Self-Realization, and Happiness – Illustrated by the Symbolism of Ancient Egypt.)

“When no one else believes in you, you gotta depend on what your inner eye is focusing on. Showing up for yourself causes the universe to adjust to your vision.”
― Robin Brown, Glitter Saints: The Cosmic Art of Forgiveness, a Memoir

“That’s the problem, Gorgeous. You fell in love. You’re supposed to rise in it. It’s supposed to set you free. Falling hurts. You’re supposed to take time to get to know somebody’s light and darkness. Make sure they benefit you and are aligned with your path. If they ain't, don’t fuck with them.” He spoke.”
― Shantel Davis, Over Him: Not a Love Story- A F*cking Story

“Sometimes, it's essential to take a moment to slow down and look at how far you've come. Like literally breathe in all the healing, all the changes that your Soul has embraced so far, the walk that once looked difficult and yet you went on with it, through it, only to come this far. It is essential to just remember how every small step you took led you to this moment, where some things that once bothered you do not find that trigger anymore, the places, the songs, the words, the elements of this material world that once brought you to your numbness have now lost its strong foothold on you, not that sometimes they won't leap in to make you feel a little vulnerable for the moment but essentially they've lost their ground. It's essential to appreciate that, to pat yourself on that.
While doing so, we would find the simplest understanding that in Life, we cannot have everything. Some things will get lost in the way, and some dreams will be left unfulfilled but the best part is, there is always going to be something to fill its place. All the things you've lost would lead you to all the things you will gain in the process. And maybe, just maybe if you take time to listen to your Soul, the things you would gain in the process of losing what you thought was necessary, are actually the real necessities of your Soul. It is when you literally Stop moving in your Mind and walk past its edges that you would know the truest meaning that was there all along, that in this Human Existence, we are not meant to have it all, to have all the dreams and yearnings accomplished, to have it all sorted, some things would always be left undone, and somewhere that holds the beauty of this Human Life, to know how far we've come and to find a sense of peace even in an insatiable mind, to know that We don't need to have it all figured out, but to hold space for Grace and Gratitude, to know Kindness for every passer by and most importantly for our own self. And to know, that Life is a Labyrinth of a winding Walk, and just like going ahead is necessary, taking a pause would actually replenish your will to keep taking the forward step in your journey. That Slowing Down doesn't actually leave you bereft of your Winning spirit, but lets you appreciate the Simplest Knowledge that Life is never about Winning or Losing but about Becoming the Core Self by unbecoming everything that this World soaked you in.

Love & Light, always
- Debatrayee”
― Debatrayee Banerjee

“Just because someone did not have the ability, the capacity, or the willingness to love us, has nothing to do with our lovability.”
― Brené Brown, Rising Strong as a Spiritual Practice