The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
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The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.
Self-worth comes from one thing - thinking that you are worthy.
The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.
Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.
Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.
If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?
To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.
Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you.
I think everybody's weird. We should all celebrate our individuality and not be embarrassed or ashamed of it.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.
Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting.
Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.
We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves.
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 get to love your pretense...It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act...
If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
A person's worth in this world is estimated according to the value he puts on himself.
Your self-worth is determined by you. You don't have to depend on someone to tell you who you are.
It is easy to live for others, everybody does. I call on you to live for yourself.
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