What qualifies your worthiness is your self-regard.
We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.
There is a common superstition that self-respect is a kind of charm against snakes, something that keeps those who have it locked in some unblighted Eden, out of strange beds, ambivalent conversations...
Having dignity doesn't require you to fall out of love with someone. You can love someone your entire life and not been in their life. It simply means you won't allow their actions or inactions to gui...
We are what God has made us.
In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.
Self Respect " respects boundaries, yours or other's,"Ego" is so full of self, it sees no boundaries.
Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.
I do not care if nobody resembles me.
Who can see inside the deepest recesses of your imagination and manifest those wishes into your daily experience? Who can appreciate those subtle nuances of character you've acquired by overcoming you...
Conscience is worse than death, some people commit suicide to evade it.
You cannot become good enough for your own approval just like you can't become good enough to have hair. You cannot earn your own self-acceptance just like you can't earn your own ears. You can't beco...
I have a body, but I am not my body.I have a face, but I am not my face.
Sometimes I have to act crazy to handle the crazies. Trying to be normal near the crazies makes me as crazy as them. The more I push reason and logic on them, the more they pervert it and use it again...
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not...
Self-respect--the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
Be honest with who you are, what you want and how you want to be treated. Boundaries only scare off the people that were not meant to be in your life.
Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.
Those who doubt themselves will doubt you. Those who limit themselves will try to limit you. Do not fight them. Smile, go your own way, and trust that your example is enough.
You can never please people enough. But you can only be yourself.