self-worth

If you surrender your self-worth to someone who doesn__ see your true value, what happens when someone comes along who wants to give you what you__e worth instead of what you__l settle for?The bottom line is this: You__e got to know your worth, at yard sales and in life, because a lot of people who are going to try to talk you out of it. If they can__ see your value, let __m keep on movin_! Someone out there is looking for exactly what you__e got and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth. Some things in life just can__ be bartered over or placed on the sale rack, and your self-worth is at the top of the list.

Knowing ourselves is knowing our worth in the eyes of God. That__ why the number one thought we cannot fail to think and believe is that He loves us. Always. No matter what.

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?

Why be broken when you can be gold?

My hand lowered slowly to my side. It trembled. "There is no affection," I said, each syllable a measured force of emotion I dared not allow purchase, "that will endure when treated as a thing.

Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.

When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.

Looking for someone to value what you have, will keep you coming up empty.

I am always hoping that you find your way and you realize how beautiful you really are. Always be yourself and never apologize for it. May you continue to walk through life hand-in-hand with your authentic self. You are purely Divine.

It wasn't that Lorrie Ann was becoming a Goody Two-shoes. It wasn't that she wanted to be perfect or loved or approved of. No. She wanted something much more dangerous. She wanted meaning. And she thought it could be gotten by following the rules.

Strong emotional feelings don't just go away overnight. In fact, they may never go away. The fears of feeling disliked, or that I wasn't going to fit in, all quickly bubbled up to the surface. but it was the choices I made when I was faced with challenges that really mattered. I had to continually tell myself that I was always in control. If someone was pressuring me to do something that I knew was not good for me, I had the power to simply say no. No one can ever take that power away from me. If someone was upset or didn't like me for saying no, that was someone that I really didn't need in my life.

You may be worth more than you think!

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

Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't.

If you praise others you are considered a nice person, but if you praise yourself you are arrogant or nonreligious! What a society, eh? No wonder your self-esteem is low.

Always remember, if someone keeps putting you down to make themselves feel or look better, be flattered that they chose you. Their insecurity always speaks louder when they need to use someone else to make them feel validated. Confidence never calls for verbal infliction.

Our beliefs about our abilities and the capabilities we have are usually the limiting reactants in the chain reaction of our lives.

I would rather have nothing than something that was only alright.