For too long, and despite what people told me, I had fallen for what the culture said about beauty, youth, features, heights, weights, hair textures, upper arms.
Anne LamottTags: beauty body-image self-esteem-or-lack-thereof
Recently, I’ve begun to think of scoliosis as a metaphor for my life. I’ve struggled to please teachers, employers, parents, boyfriends, husbands, twisting myself into someone I can’t be. I hurt when I do this, because it’s not natural. And it never works. But when I stretch my Self, instead, the results are different. When I’m reaching for my personal goals—to be a good mother, wife, friend and writer—I feel my balance return. And the sense of relief, as I become more the woman I truly am, is simply grand.
Linda C. WisniewskiTags: self-esteem-or-lack-thereof
Self-esteem is for sissies. Accept that you're a pimple and try to keep a lively sense of humor about it. That way lies grace - and maybe even glory.
Tom RobbinsTags: self-esteem-or-lack-thereof
Putting someone down with name calling reveals your own low self-esteem.
Stephen RichardsTags: self-esteem self-discovery self-help self-improvement esteem self-esteem-or-lack-thereof stephen-richards stephen-richards-self-help boost-your-self-esteem
The greater the artist, the greater the doubt. Perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize."
[Modernism's Patriarch (Time Magazine, June 10, 1996)]
Tags: art doubt greatness self-esteem confidence humility fame introspection artists creative-process self-awareness depression self-delusion self-doubt narcissism insecurity self-esteem-or-lack-thereof self-doubts fame-and-fortune depression-humor cezanne great-art great-artist paul-cezanne
Pain, too, comes from depths that cannot be revealed. We do not know whether those depths are in ourselves or elsewhere, in a graveyard, in a scarcely dug grave, only recently inhabited by withered flesh. This truth, which is banal enough, unravels time and the face, holds up a mirror to me in which I cannot see myself without being overcome by a profound sadness that undermines one's whole being. The mirror has become the route through which my body reaches that state, in which it is crushed into the ground, digs a temporary grave, and allows itself to be drawn by the living roots that swarm beneath the stones. It is flattened beneath the weight of that immense sadness which few people have the privilege of knowing. So I avoid mirrors.
Tahar Ben JellounTags: sexuality poetry self-esteem eating-disorder depression transgender mirrors eating-disorders self-esteem-or-lack-thereof
Why live in fear that he might find me disgusting someday, when I could make it happen right now?
Rachel HartmanTags: fear beauty self-esteem-or-lack-thereof
[T]hou canst not think worse of me than I do of myself.
Robert BurtonTags: self-esteem self self-hatred self-loathing self-esteem-or-lack-thereof
I'm not talking about the blood ecstasy. I'm talking about my being able to fill that emotion void she has. You know her as well as I do, maybe better. She aches with it. She needs to be accepted for who she is so badly. And I was able to do that. Do you know good that felt? To be able to show someone that, yes, you are someone worth sacrificing for? That you like them for their faults and that you respect them for their ability to rise above them?
Kim HarrisonTags: inspirational friendship love acceptance self-esteem self-esteem-or-lack-thereof friendship-true-and-loyal acceptance-of-others
That's not me talking, it's your inner voice. I'd attempt the accent, only I don't speak low self-esteem. It's a language I've never needed to learn.
Sophie HannahTags: self-esteem self-esteem-or-lack-thereof
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