Quotes on Worthiness

It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else's eyes.

That religion which costs a man nothing is usually worth nothing.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.... Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness. If it doesn't feel vulnerable, the sharing is probably not constructive.

I may say that B-love, in a profound but testable sense, creates the partner. It gives him a self-image, it gives him self- acceptance, a feeling of love-worthiness, all of which permit him to grow. It is a real question whether the full development of the human being is possible without it.

The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

You alone are the judge of your worth and your goal is to discover infinite worth in yourself, no matter what anyone else thinks.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

Nothing has transformed my life more than realizing that it's a waste of time to evaluate my worthiness by weighing the reaction of the people in the stands.

There’s a difference between thinking you deserve to be happy and knowing that you are worthy of being happy. Your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough.

Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

It's hard to practice compassion when we're struggling with our authenticity or when our own worthiness is off-balance.

Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are worthy just because you believe that you are. Your worthiness is proven by your existence. Your breathing. The beating of your heart. Your mere presence is all that is needed to establish your worth.

Credit worthiness is like virginity, it can be preserved but not restored very easily, so it is crazy to play around with it.

There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow.

Our capacity for wholeheartednes s can never be greater than our willingness to be broken-hearted.

Wholeheartedness. There are many tenets of Wholeheartedness, but at its very core is vulnerability and worthiness; facing uncertainty, exposure, and emotional risks, and knowing that I am enough.

When love is in excess, it brings a man no honor, no worthiness.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.