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I'm pretty, but not beautiful.I sin, but I'm not the devil.I'm good, but I'm not an angel.
Don't associate yourself with toxic people. It's better to be alone and love yourself than surrounded by people that make you hate yourself.
Cutting negative people from my life does not mean I hate them, it simply means I respect me.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
When it comes right down to it, all you have is your self. Your Self is a sun with a thousand rays.
It’s self-full to be first, to be as good as possible to you. To take care of you, keep you whole and healthy. That doesn’t mean you disregard everything and everyone. But you want to come with your cup full. You know: ‘My cup runneth over.’ What comes out of the cup is for y’all. What’s in the cup is mine. But I’ve got to keep my cup full.
We all want to be liked, loved, or needed. That is fine. What is not fine is what we are willing to do to make sure we are liked, or loved or needed. When we make the needs and wants of others a priority in our lives, we devalue ourselves.
Comparing yourself to others is an act of violence against your authentic self.
Your value should not be determined by how somebody else has treated you.
When was the last time you thanked you for always being there for you? Self appreciation soothes an aching soul.
I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it's true I'm here, and I'm just as strange as you.
People always ask me, 'You have so much confidence. Where did that come from?'. It came from me. One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl. I wear colors that I really like, I wear makeup that makes me feel pretty, and it really helps. It doesn't have anything to do with how the world perceives you. What matters is what you see.
I learned to love myself, because I sleep with myself every night and I wake up with myself every morning, and if I don't like myself, there's no reason to even live the life.
Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.
I lack nothing. I only needed myself.
I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.
I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to better.
My beauty is dark chocolate and it's delicious and it's sweet.
One day I had to sit down with myself and decide that I loved myself no matter what my body looked like and what other people thought about my body. I got tired of hating myself.
I don't fixate on other people's opinions of my body.
Being self-critical is good; being self-hating is destructive. There's a very fine line there somewhere, and I walk it carefully.
I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.
If other people do not understand our behavior-so what? Their request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to us. If this is being 'asocial' or 'irrational' in their eyes, so be it. Mostly they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on them.
The most important opinion you'll ever have is the one you hold of yourself.
Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.
Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused
If rejection destroys your self-esteem, you're letting others hold you as an emotional hostage.
Trusting yourself means living out what you already know to be true.
Define yourself radically as one beloved by God. This is the true self. Every other identity is illusion.
My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.
Some people say, 'Save yourself and you save your ways.' I say, 'Be yourself and you save your soul.
I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is. I have a right to be this way...I can't apologize for that, nor can I change it, nor do I want to... We will never have to be other than who we are in order to be successful...We realize that we are as ourselves unlimited and our experiences valid. It is for the rest of the world to recognize this, if they choose.
The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth.