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Zoltán looked at them through the window. He hated the man. Now he hated work. Work for these? Work with these? He saw before him the great puszta. Here the long, cracked stripe of a ditch once again stole the blue of the sky, transforming it into a deeper colour, renewing it, like an artist's palette: every pool on the meadows, every clump of flowers, was a jewel on the bosom of nature, a diadem, a string of pearls: oh, nature was lovely... That is, it would be if it could... But mankind... Among these? Struggle, fight, this greedy little piece of meat... Dark furrows on the wondrous surface, the many-branched, tufted promise of the maize, jewelled patches on God's regal robe: why was the world so lovely? to cover up the ugliness of man?
— Zsigmond Móricz
People kill very important people to change the season in their life.
— Allan Wesler, The Story that Changed the World
From Adam's day until now men everywhere have tried to find their own way to meet God's standard of holiness. Has anyone been successful? No!
— Dr. J. Otis Yoder, This Is Jerusalem
Yes, My Son, man is a piece of wood, that can be used for everything, from the moment he’s born until the moment he dies, he’s always ready to obey, send him there and he goes, tell him to halt and he stops, tell him to turn back and he retreats, whether in peace or in war, man, generally speaking, is the best thing that could have happened to the gods, And the wood from which I’m made, since I’m a man, what use will it be put to, since I’m Your son, You will be the spoon I shall dip into humanity and bring out laden with men who shall believe in the new god I intend to become, Laden with men You will devour, There’s no need for Me to devour those who devour themselves.
— José Saramago
Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.
— Johnny Rich, The Human Script
I wish I had the gift of religious faith. Sometimes I long to believe in a structured universe designed purposefully for mankind.
— Adib Khan, Spiral Road
Man are nothing but results of genuineness, while god was busy doing mistakes.
— Iraniya Naynesh
Had mankind listened to the Creator when he advised his children to never create his image, or give him a name, then humanity would not be so confused and divided in believing that every faith is worshiping a different god.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
It is evident that we are hurrying onward to some exciting knowledge—some never-to-be-imparted secret, whose attainment is destruction.
— Edgar Allan Poe, Tales of Mystery and Imagination
The symbology of the sphinx… is to remind mankind for eternity that he is nothing more than an animal with a brain.
— Milton William Cooper
Mankind has a divine duty, to be stewardship of the natural resources.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of  Success: Passion Driven Life
The boulder is the truth that the great men know by instinct, and the mountain is the stupidity of mankind.
— Doris Lessing, The Golden Notebook
Mankind must learn to coexist with each other to create a peaceful world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Mankind must live in a harmony with one another in order to have a peaceful world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
May my life radiates the beauty of God's glorious grace to mankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's simple. Mankind is a sorry excuse for living creatures. They are cruel, cold, merciless, selfish, heartless, wasteful, greedy, and destructive. But the list goes on. I can spend all night telling you what’s wrong with them, but why bother?
— Charles   Lee, The Way To Dawn
Modern man has successfully razed the imaginative landscapes of primal peoples the whole world over. Kill the gods first, slaughter the sacred animals, rewrite the mythologies, and build roads through the holy places. Do all this and watch the people decline. Without souls, they soon die, leaving dead shells, zombie cultures, shambling aimlessly towards oblivion.
— Grant Morrison, Doom Patrol, Vol. 6: Planet Love
We can all participate in the heritage of man. We all can help to preserve it. And we can all make our own modest contribution to it.We must not as for more.
— Karl R. Popper, Knowledge and the Body-Mind Problem: In Defence of Interaction
Does mankind truly hate itself? How can one surmount such irreverence?
— Brom, Krampus: The Yule Lord
I have long been of the Opinion, says he, that the Fire was a vast Blessing and the Plague likewise; it gave us Occasion to understand the Secrets of Nature which otherwise might have overwhelm'd us. (I busied my self with the right Order of the Draughts, and said nothing.) With what Firmness of Mind, Sir Chris. went on, did the People see their City devoured, and I can still remember how after the Plague and the Fire the Chearfulnesse soon returned to them: Forgetfulnesse is the great Mystery of Time.I remember, I said as I took a Chair opposite to him, how the Mobb applauded the Flames. I remember how they sang and danced by the Corses during the Contagion: that was not Chearfulnesse but Phrenzy. And I remember, also, the Rage and the Dying -These were the Accidents of Fortune, Nick, from which we have learned so much in this Generation.It was said, sir, that the Plague and the Fire were no Accidents but Substance, that they were the Signes of the Beast withinne. And Sir Chris. laughed at this.At which point Nat put his Face in: Do you call, sirs? Would you care for a Dish of Tea or some Wine?Some Tea, some Tea, cried Sir Chris. for the Fire gives me a terrible Thirst. But no, no, he continued when Nat had left the Room, you cannot assign the Causes of Plague or Fire to Sin. It was the negligence of Men that provoked those Disasters and for Negligence there is a Cure; only Terrour is the Hindrance.Terrour, I said softly, is the Lodestone of our Art.
— Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
Being selfish only benefits a few. Considering others benefits all of mankind.
— Terraine Francois
What a nightmare!" cried Imtaz. "There's nothing gloomier than nature. You'll lose your sense of humor in the country. Unable to criticize the trees, your intelligence will lose its edge as you contemplate the plowed fields, and then, it'll be very easy for you to sing the praises of your fellow men because you won't be here to see and listen to them. Don't make that mistake. Never cut yourself off from mankind because, with distance, you're more likely to grant men extenuating circumstances. I love you too much to let you succumb to that weakness.
— Albert Cossery, A Splendid Conspiracy
War is the plague of mankind
—  I am and remain in solidarity with eternal peace.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.
— Thomas Paine
Even now man is more of an ape than any of the apes.
— Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
A goal of this book has been to tear down in some small part these barriers to understanding by attempting to shatter the “divinity of arithmetic,” through showing that even the methods, which we now take most for granted, were not given to us from on high, but were actually the result of centuries of scientific efforts on the part of our predecessors. p. 269
— G. Arnell Williams, How Math Works: A Guide to Grade School Arithmetic for Parents and Teachers
As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.
— Andrew R. George, The Epic of Gilgamesh
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
— Edmund Burke
If you would serve God and be truly religious, do not kneel before God, but learn to walk with God, and do somethingtangible every day to increase the happiness of mankind. This is religion that is worthwhile, and it is such religion alone that can please the Infinite.
— Christian D. Larson
I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.
— Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents
Divisions in mankind are unnatural. They are man made.
— D'Andre Lampkin
For such is the noble nature of man, that his heart will never wholly lose itself in one single passion or idol, or, as people call it apologetically, one idea. On it goes from one devotion to the next, not because it is ashamed of its first love, but because it must be on fire perpetually. To fall for Reason, as our grandfathers did, is but one Fall of Man among his many passionate attempts to find the apples of knowledge and eternal life, both in one. When a nation, or individual, declines the experiences that present themselves to passionate hearts only, they are automatically turned out from the realm of history. The heart of man either falls in love with somebody or something, or it falls ill. It can never go unoccupied. And the great question for mankind Is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever an old love or fear has lost its hold.
— Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Out of Revolution: Autobiography of Western Man
And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity. --The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth)
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Mankind made up a version of reality we could all live in.
— Christopher Hawke
It's a kind of heresy to say so, but I think our race has made forms more beautiful than what was here before us. Sometimes god's handiwork is crude. There is no more ugly thing than a lobster. There's not much pretty about a caribou. It has an ungainly walk and its touchhole voids droppings when it strains in harness. Was there a straight line on earth before we drew one?
— Marcel Theroux, Far North
History in its broadest aspect is a record of man's migrations from one environment to another.
— Ellsworth Huntington
The supernatural Christ of the New Testament, the god of orthodox Christianity, is dead. But priestcraft lives and conjures up the ghost of this dead god to frighten and enslave the masses of mankind. The name of Christ has caused more persecutions, wars, and miseries than any other name has caused. The darkest wrongs are still inspired by it. The wails of anguish that went up from Kishinev, Odessa, and Bialystok still vibrate in our ears.
— John E. Remsburg, The Christ
Mankind, as history tells us over and over again, seeks the least painful solution and, as a result, ends up exchanging one problem foranother
— Gyan Nagpal, Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
It has been argued that man is not an animal, but I tell you, the animal in man is what makes man an animal.
— Lawrence Okafor
Malicious men may die, but malice never.
— Molière, Tartuffe
The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in.
— Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad
I have no fear of ghosts, and I have never heard it said that so much harm had been done by the dead during 6,000 years as it brought by the living in a single day.
— Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
There is something about the very idea of a city which is central to the understanding of a planet like Earth, and particularly the understanding of that part of the then-existing group-civilization which called itself the West. That idea, to my mind, met its materialist apotheosis in Berlin at the time of the
— Iain M. Banks, The State of the Art
Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are madeTaller or stronger than the weeds they shade?Or ask of yonder argent fields above,Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man
There is no point in expending good money on the pursuit of an engine that can power aircraft without propellers. What is wrong with airships anyway? They have borne mankind aloft for over a hundred relatively accident-free years and I see no reason to impugn their popularity...
— Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
If one is searching for the cause of brutality in mankind, it would do well to remember that civilization is a great and vast machine.
— Christopher  Dutton
Man was big enough to kill himself, thanks. No gods need apply.
— Scott Morse, Strange Science Fantasy
What is beauty or ugliness but a false front that prompts man to make assumptions rather than delving deeper.
— Kristen Callihan, Firelight
Whenever you see confusion, you can be sure that something is wrong. Disorder in the world implies that something is out of place. Usually, at the heart of all disorder you will find man in rebellion against God. It began in the Garden of Eden and continues to this day.
— A.W. Tozer, And He Dwelt Among Us: Teachings from the Gospel of John
books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation.
— Will Schwalbe, The End of Your Life Book Club
I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.
— Robin Hobb, Assassin's Quest
Judged against eternity, how little of what agitates us makes any difference.
— Alain de Botton, Status Anxiety
Well people are just one species too, aren't they. And it's never stopped them fighting with each other; all the same species and think of all the excuses for war they've used! It hasn't had to be about space to live in, it's been about power, prestige, influence, fame, resources and I don't know what else!
— Karel Čapek
...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...
— John Geddes, A Familiar Rain
Greed is like a dark side of every man, and you could not see it from the appearance of a man, but in the inside the greedy beast already dominating you.
— Steven Eric Chen
Clusters of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights had the archaic charm of little fires on a plain, and the frailty about them, if it did not excuse anything, at least explained a lot of Man's stubborn ruthlessness. Mankind had not started the mess that was life, after all. And on the whole, it had been an interesting species to be a part of, the girls especially, as long as you remembered to watch your back.
— Jean-Christophe Valtat, Aurorarama
The free-will of men and the sovereignty of God are operationally co-existent, neither Reality impunes the 'co-dependent' authority of the other".R. Alan Woods [2012]
— R. Alan Woods
Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
— Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.
— Glenn Beck, The Christmas Sweater
I was used to sleeping with people because I endlessly found myself in identical situations where it was easier to just fuck them than to say no.
— Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
Suddenly I grasped what was happening- they were all trying to save me. I never thought I was worth saving.
— Albert Borris, Crash Into Me
The enemy uses those things your insecure about. Free yourself and take your power back by being secure in who you are - flaws and all.
— Yvonne Pierre, The Day My Soul Cried:  A Memoir
And, above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you very much at your own reckoning.
— Anthony Trollope, The Small House at Allington
I didn't know I was really alive in this world until I felt things hard enough to kill for 'em...
— Richard Wright, Native Son
For all those who longed to find a best friend and found it in themselves
— Sandra Kring, The Book of Bright Ideas
But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile.
— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
What I think is all I have left. My mind is the only thing that makes me different from a fancy toaster. What we think does matter-it's all we truly have.
— Mary E. Pearson, The Fox Inheritance
Nothing was a more powerful compass of my mood or a better indication of my self-worth than the number on the scale.
— Betsy Lerner, Food and Loathing: A Life Measured Out in Calories
Heroes aren't heroes because they worship the light, but because they know the darkness all to well to stand down and live with it.
— Ninya Tippett, The Mischievous Mrs. Maxfield
tis hard to live in a world where all look upon you as below them.
— James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer
I'm simply reminding you that you're worth more than what you'll find at the bottom of a bottle.
— Myra McEntire, Timepiece
Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.
— Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer
Richard didn't even have time to ask if I thought I'd ever amount to anything in this life before I looked him eye to eye and said, "I already have, mister.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
The price tag that you put on your soul will determine the people and circumstances in which you find yourself.
— Shannon L. Alder
The moment you feel you have to prove your worth to someone is the moment to absolutely and utterly walk away.
— Alysia Harris
You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through.
— Deb Caletti, The Six Rules of Maybe
I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me.
— Wendy McClure, I'm Not the New Me
A person's value is attached to a variable exponent.
— David Bajo
An insecure person will attempt to make you think that your strengths are weaknesses so that you can also feel insecure.
— Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
The most admirable quality among people is when we pause and think of something to say, without ripping others to shreds (even if they deserved it).
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
I am worth more than these excuses. I am worth more than this inconsistent, unhealthy, disappointing dynamic. I am worthy of finding someone that is never going to allow us to settle into this toxic, distorted version of love.
— Liz  Newman
We can feel damaged and sad and mad and know that it doesn’t make us any less worthy than when we didn’t feel that way.
— Liz  Newman
It’s like there’s a check-list of accomplishments that people expect from you. Like it’s the only path to happiness, this societal construct of what makes us successful and worthy. But, don’t buy it. You can be happy no matter which part of the story you’re in. You are worthy in every chapter.
— Liz  Newman
Among your farewells, see you soon, now I have no time and stormy silences, I met someone....that someone, is me.
— Efrat Cybulkiewicz
They didn't have very far to fall - I knew just being a girl in the world handicapped your ability to believe yourself. Feelings seemed completely unreliable, like faulty gibberish scraped from a Ouija board. My childhood visits to the family doctor were stressful events for that reason. He'd ask me gentle questions: How was I feeling? How would I describe the pain? Was it more sharp or more spread out? I'd just look at him with desperation. I needed to be told, that was the whole point of going to the doctor. To take a test, be put through a machine that could comb my insides with radiated precision and tell me what the truth was. Of course the girls didn't leave the ranch: there is a lot that can be borne. When I was nine, I'd broken my wrist falling from a swing. The shocking crack, the blackout pain. But even then, even with my wrist swelling with a cuff of trapped blood, I insisted I was fine, that it was nothing, and my parents believed me right up until the doctor showed them the X-ray, the bones snapped clean.
— Emma Cline, The Girls
What is it, then, that comprises our deepest selves and gives us worth?
— Ted Dekker, Identity
I want to know exactly how many pieces of myself I had to give away before I became something else entirely.
— Kris Kidd, Return to Sender
But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before.
— Melina Marchetta, Finnikin of the Rock
What's true about you is what God says about you. Not what your mirror says. Not what your past says.
— Mark Hall
My appearance hadn’t changed much, besides the hair. But I saw something so much different in the mirror. I was with an amazing woman. I was trying to find a way into Brooklyn’s life. I was now one-third owner of one of New York’s hottest, most successful clubs. It was worth. I saw a shred of worth looking back at me in my reflection. - Kane
— Brenda Rothert, Barely Breathing
...and because she had not completed her "self work" to fully understand her self worth...she ran away from a love that was soul deep, created just for her at that very moment. #journey2love #journey2self #selfworkisessential#stoprunningandstand
— Sanjo Jendayi
Even if I be likened to a rat, I do not care, provided that that particular rat be wanted by you, and be of use in the world, and be retained in its position, and receive its reward. But what a rat it is!
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Poor Folk
Each day is new, but our lives shall be old in each new day if we fail to understand why each day is new.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Every one has a level of influence that can be harnessed for greater good
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Knowing your self-worth isn't something others can validate. You either believe it or you don't.
— Richard Paul Evans, The Mistletoe Inn
Why be broken when you can be gold?
— Sarah Rees Brennan, Unmade
Some people might leave you,' he said, for once ignoring a joke in favor of something real. 'But it doesn't mean you're worth leaving. It doesn't mean that at all.
— Veronica Roth, Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories
Permit no man to make mockery of you just because you may not be proficient in something. Remember you are gifted no matter how insignificant it may be, it's your priced possession, value it
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Picture your worst fear or most shameful experience becoming associated with an area of your body, and then magnify this image many times over. Within the construct of body dysmorphic disorder, a body part takes on an identity of its own. The body area of concern becomes profoundly associated with the individual's sense of self: The individual with BDD misses the forest through the trees, and rather than seeing many different body parts that together shape outward appearance, the despised physical feature becomes the focal point of their existence. It can easily become the singular element within the person's life and a gauge that determines the entirety of their self-worth.
— Winograd Arie M, Face to Face with Body Dysmorphic Disorder: Psychotherapy and Clinical Insights
Knowing ourselves is knowing our worth in the eyes of God. That’s why the number one thought we cannot fail to think and believe is that He loves us. Always. No matter what.
— Toni Sorenson, Aligned By Christ
This life is YOURS. Only YOU can live your life to the FULLEST. So OWN it!
— Karen A. Baquiran
Rita has spent her whole life being chased by boys. Because of that, she never had a chance to stop running long enough to figure out who she was and what kind of guy she should let catch her.
— Amy Harmon, Making Faces
In this life, no matter what you do-you will never be able to satisfy everyone. So stay true to yourself and do you. Trying to please others, you will only end up angry and dissatisfied with life.
— Authoress Redd
There are many men out there who can see nothing but evil. It is on their vision like a cataract. Don't make yourself available to their interpretation of your worth.
— Laurie Perez, Torpor: Though the Heart Is Warm
I don't claim to be the best musician. If being the best means I earn the right to look down on people and critique their accomplishments in defense of my own, I don't ever want to be. People can say what they want about my music being 'banal' and my skill level 'competent,' and it will hurt my feelings (because despite what some believe, I do still have them), but I won't let it determine my self-worth.
— Lindsey Stirling, The Only Pirate at the Party
You are worth the investment so spend the time, money and resources on you. You matter. When you're strong, healthy and happy, those you love most will also benefit.
— Toni Sorenson
It's a tragic that we recognized our self worth from external validation.
— Aditya Ajmera
If you praise others you are considered a nice person, but if you praise yourself you are arrogant or nonreligious! What a society, eh? No wonder your self-esteem is low.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
— Dr. Maya Angleou
Told so repeatedly that we were worthless, we could not see the truth until we looked into each other's eyes.
— Amalia Dillin, Blood of the Queen
Pay attention. Be alert. Don't be in denial. Learn
— Marxxha
Living in low-income neighborhoods, I've seen sexual health campaigns aimed at slut-shaming us into celibacy. They talk about things like self-esteem and value and all the usual abstinence arguments. They assume that our bodies are a gift that we should bestow selectively on others, rather than the one thing that can never be anything but our own. Even if we do share it, it is ours irrevocably.These are the bodies that hold the brains we're supposed to shut off all day at work, the same bodies that aren't important enough to heal. These are the bodies that come with the genitalia that we should be so protective of? I really don't understand the logic.You can't tell us that our brains and labor and emotions are worth next to nothing and then expect us to get all full of intrinsic worth when it comes to our genitals. Either we're cheap or we're not.Make up your fucking mind.
— Linda Tirado, Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America
When you know your worth, no one can dictate your value.
— Andria Gaskins, A Second Helping
There is a deeper reason why the café was so precious to this town. And this deeper reason has to do with a certain pride that had not hitherto been known in these parts. To understand this new pride the cheapness of human life must be kept in mind. There were always plenty of people clustered around a mill – but it was seldom that every family had enough meal, garments, and fat back to go the rounds. Life could become one long dim scramble just to get the things needed to keep alive. And the confusing point is this: All useful things have a price, and are bought only with money, as that is the way the world is run. You know without having to reason about it the price of a bale of cotton, or a quart of molasses. But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.
— Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories
It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves.
— Ellen Hopkins
Always remember, if someone keeps putting you down to make themselves feel or look better, be flattered that they chose you. Their insecurity always speaks louder when they need to use someone else to make them feel validated. Confidence never calls for verbal infliction.
— Karen A. Baquiran
My hand lowered slowly to my side. It trembled. "There is no affection," I said, each syllable a measured force of emotion I dared not allow purchase, "that will endure when treated as a thing.
— Karina Cooper, Transmuted
Perhaps people who don't value other people's time are actually reflecting a misunderstanding they have themselves
—  that of not giving appropriate value to their own time.
I am always hoping that you find your way and you realize how beautiful you really are. Always be yourself and never apologize for it. May you continue to walk through life hand-in-hand with your authentic self. You are purely Divine.
— Karen A. Baquiran
Sometimes we allow pride to keep us running after a man who doesn’t want to be captured.
— Lisa Marbly-Warir
Most inherent beauties are hidden, as are precious stones in the rocks
— Soke Behzad Ahmadi
A person's self worth or inner merit is the essential commodity, whereas fame is something secondary, the mere shadow of merit. "It is not fame but whereby we merit it that is of true value....a man's greatest happiness is not that posterity will know something about him but he himself will develop thoughts that deserve consideration and preservation for centuries.
— Yalom D. Irvin, Schopenhauer A.
There are ways to do things, ways to act with people, and I do not understand them. I cannot understand what people mean when they talk. I do not do things right. I do not feel things right. I do not see things right. I am not...I'm not made of the same thing as everyone else.'The baker took in a deep breath. 'I think if you'll look around, my boy,' he said gently, 'you'll find that no one is quite right. But we all do the best we can.
— Anne Ursu, The Real Boy
Never make someone a priority when they only make you an option
— source unknown
You may be worth more than you think!
— Anuranjita Kumar, Can I have it all?
Love has little to do with romance and everything to do with honor.
— Jesikah Sundin, Elements
The quality of the results we get in our lives depends on the quality of the self-beliefs we hold.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
Don't be a slave to your limiting beliefs. It's your mind, so take control of it today. Stop following the beliefs that don’t help you. Create empowering beliefs that will serve you better.
— Maddy Malhotra, How to Build Self-Esteem and Be Confident: Overcome Fears, Break Habits, Be Successful and Happy
I just want a life of happiness, laughter and possibility,I want a passion that I call my job, to pay my bills.I want to spend my time, eating good food & making unremarkable memories with the family I have left.I want friends that can be honest enough to tell me, if I fuck up, so I can fix it & also beautiful enough to know when I'm lieing in my smile. I want a lover who isn't afraid to love me with every inch of his heart but also fearless in keeping his individual voice as we grow together. And I will have all of it, because I believe I am worthy of it.
— Nikki Rowe
Stop giving love to those who don't return it.
— Robert Tew
I wondered how that felt, to really like yourself. And I wondered why some people didn't like themselves and others did. Maybe that's just the way it was.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz
You don’t have to spend a lot of money to feel like a million. A good night’s sleep, a quiet walk by the river or a hug from a favorite person will do the trick.
— Gina Greenlee
No matter what life has dealt you, your yesterday does not need to define your today.
— Mary A. Pérez
Just as like finds like, love finds love. Embrace it. Be open and giving. Accept love with kindness, grace, and spirit.
— Michael Holbrook, Dear You, Live! Love, Life
Shame is a destroyer of self-worth.
— Shannon Tanner, Worthy: The POWER of Wholeness
Our beliefs about our abilities and the capabilities we have are usually the limiting reactants in the chain reaction of our lives.
— Nana Awere Damoah, Excursions in my Mind
When you have defined yourself, circumstances don’t define you – they only refine you.
— Nana Awere Damoah, Excursions in my Mind
There are, literally, thousands of people all around the world who need nothing more than to meet someone just like you. To spend your time pretending to be someone else is just as senseless and fear-driven as spending your time speaking to people who don’t understand you. Find your tribe. Let yourself be seen. You are already someone’s hero.
— Vironika Tugaleva
But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.
— Ryan North, Adventure Time Vol. 4
During the year of 2015 stay grounded. How? Each night before you go to sleep, write a word/expression capturing a positive state of mind on a sheet of paper. Fold the paper in a V and prop it on your nightstand beside your bed so you will see it the first thing in the morning.  When you wake up, look at the word, put the word into your mind and feel it/express it throughout the day, no matter what happens to you that day. Examples are: appreciation, look for the positive in others and events; happy, worthiness, creative, cheerful, forgiving, gratitude, letting go of your ego and focus on others, selfless, love, kindness, etc.
— J.F. Kelly, A Woman's Pleasure
Using someone else’s ruler to measure your self-worth will always leave you short.
— Charles F. Glassman
Knowing your inner voice and how you will confront it, is like talking to yourself in front of the mirror and appreciate it.
— EllieCue
Your greatest enemy is your own relection
— Joanne McClean, Untitled
The worst weapon of your enemy, rival, competitor, distractor is creating self-doubt in you and/or your team. They cannot win you without first destroying your self-worth.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
Understanding your importance does not minimize those around you, it brings fulfillment to everyone.
— E'yen A. Gardner, Have It Your Way: A Practical Guide to Living Life on Your Terms
People will kill you over time. And how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases like ‘be realistic’.
— Dylan Moran
If you choose to be fearless, then be fearlessly authentic not an imitation of someone you envy.
— Shannon L. Alder
Setting boundaries is a way of caring for myself. It doesn't make me mean, selfish, or uncaring because I don't do things your way. I care about me too.
— Christine  Morgan
I determine my own worth. If I had to rely on others, I'd have lain down and died waiting.
— Melina Marchetta, Quintana of Charyn
You can always hold out for something better when you know your self worth.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
It wasn't that Lorrie Ann was becoming a Goody Two-shoes. It wasn't that she wanted to be perfect or loved or approved of. No. She wanted something much more dangerous. She wanted meaning. And she thought it could be gotten by following the rules.
— Rufi Thorpe, The Girls from Corona del Mar
If Froi understood anything, it was that in this world one's worth came from others.
— Melina Marchetta, Froi of the Exiles
You are worthless to others if you don't know your own self and self-worth.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your feelings are the utmost priority, your desires are more important than anyone else's deadline or mandate.
— Regena Thomashauer, Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts: Using the Power of Pleasure to Have Your Way with the World
Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.
— Anonymous
It's like a big circle. I've gone on a get-a-man crusade, but so far it's been a disaster and I'm feeling as bad about myself as I ever have. I know I'm a great person and all that, a good friend, but I feel like real bottom of the barrel girlfriend material.
— Ann Patchett, Truth and Beauty
This is what she hated about hot guys. That warm and fuzzy feeling she got when one of them anointed her as worthy.
— Kate Meader, Feel the Heat
If you surrender your self-worth to someone who doesn’t see your true value, what happens when someone comes along who wants to give you what you’re worth instead of what you’ll settle for?The bottom line is this: You’ve got to know your worth, at yard sales and in life, because a lot of people who are going to try to talk you out of it. If they can’t see your value, let ‘em keep on movin’! Someone out there is looking for exactly what you’ve got and will never try and undercut your value or question your worth. Some things in life just can’t be bartered over or placed on the sale rack, and your self-worth is at the top of the list.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Certain girls deserve lots of flowers. You are one of them.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
Strong emotional feelings don't just go away overnight. In fact, they may never go away. The fears of feeling disliked, or that I wasn't going to fit in, all quickly bubbled up to the surface. but it was the choices I made when I was faced with challenges that really mattered. I had to continually tell myself that I was always in control. If someone was pressuring me to do something that I knew was not good for me, I had the power to simply say no. No one can ever take that power away from me. If someone was upset or didn't like me for saying no, that was someone that I really didn't need in my life.
— Stephen Cremen, Battle Scars: My Journey from Obesity to Health and Happiness, Fifteen Years and Counting!
When life beats us down, we often do not feel worthwhile to ourselves nor to anyone else. Often, we try to hide our feelings of inadequacy in pursuit of perfection, which develops into self-loathing. If only we can be perfect, then we can be okay.
— David W. Earle
Deep down in all of us there is a tendency to want to prove ourselves, to base our worth on what we do.
— Tim Chester, You Can Change: God's Transforming Power for Our Sinful Behavior and Negative Emotions
You've decided that you're not worthy of my love. Who are you to decide who I should love?
— Catherine DePasquale, A Future Spring
I would rather have nothing than something that was only alright.
— Dorothy Koomson, The Woman He Loved Before
It had taken her a good deal of time before she believed that she was worth all that fierce affection he lavished upon her. To have it stolen away unjustly was that much more cruel.
— Gail Carriger, Blameless
There are times to listen to the people that believe in you during those days you don't believe in yourself. Sometimes you look in the mirror and it's fogged up; the person looking back a blurred image, but those folks that know you and love you see the real you. Sometimes you have to trust the ones that are there for you in your darkest times to find out how much light exists in you. God bless you.
— Lee  Goff
We cannot let the haters of this world define us. Or frighten us into no longer being ourselves.
— Mary E. DeMuth, Everything: What You Give and What You Gain to Become Like Jesus
There is nowhere you need go to find God, for God is within you. There is no one you need ask if you are good enough, for He has already established He is exceedingly well pleased.
— Marianne Williamson, Illuminata: A Return to Prayer
Looking for someone to value what you have, will keep you coming up empty.
— E'yen A. Gardner, Love Letters
When I have my interview with my God, our conversation will focus on the individuals whose self-esteem I was able to strengthen, whose faith I was able to reinforce, and whose discomfort I was able to assuage—a doer of good, regardless of what assignment I had. These are the metrics of that matter in measuring my life. This realization, which occurred nearly fifteen years ago, guided me every day to seek opportunities to help people in ways tailored to their individual circumstances. My happiness and my sense of worth has been immeasurably improved as a result.
— Clayton M. Christensen
Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you cannot have an opinion.
— Susan Oakey-Baker, Finding Jim
Sitti knows that modern-day wars are fought over simple things, like the length and fit of a shirt—the shorter the sleeve, the greater the misfortune. Many times she wants to ask the one-hundred-year-old fig tree in the village center what it is like to be born from nothing and grow into something. She wants to know what it is like to bear fruit every year and not expect anything in return. She wants to know what it is like to be respected for what she could give—no more and no less.
— Sadiqua Hamdan, Happy Am I. Holy Am I. Healthy Am I.
If someone like this were to like me, to like my comedy, and to like the way I conduct myself professionally, it would mean that I suck as a person.
— Patton Oswalt, Zombie Spaceship Wasteland
Quid nomen tibi est? She was not about to offer her name up to a stranger. It was almost the only thing she possessed that nobody had stolen.
— Ruth Downie, Medicus
Don't forget that your happiness is the most important thing, and that you should never equate your GPA or school with your sense of self-worth. . . . If you're feeling overwhelmed, take a step back and remind yourself that you are not your grades.
— Stefanie Weisman, The Secrets of Top Students: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Acing High School and College
But all those weeks with Nate, however fake they might have been, did do one thing for me. Whether the rest of world saw me that way, I knew now that I was strong, and I was beautiful, just the way I was. And girls like me needed gorgeous clothes too.
— Alessandra Thomas, Picture Perfect
Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars. So are disgrace, defeat, exposure to immediate scorn and laughter. There is no opportunity in such cases for self-delusion, no idling time away, no being off your guard (or you must take the consequences) - neither is there any room for humour or caprice or prejudice.
— William Hazlitt
When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
You are not easily forgotten.
— Greg Behrendt, He's Just Not That Into You: The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys
Tell me what a person finds sexually attractive and I will tell you their entire philosophy of life. Show me the person they sleep with and I will tell you their valuation of themselves.
— Ayn Rand
Let me tell you something, honey. Fifty percent of life is others trying to push their own agenda on you—their belief system, their views, their convictions. The other fifty percent is you deciding whether or not you’re going to let them. Or if you’re going to form your own opinions.-Miss Velma
— Rachael Wade, Love and Relativity
I know, now, without a doubt that the true source of happiness, self-worth, and authentic beauty doesn't come from the outside. Women are constantly being persuaded to want something unachievable, to look younger or thinner and above all to fit in because being different is too painful and embarassing. I have accepted myself in a world that does not accept me, because I have learned [ . . . ] that our hearts matter most... It's a beautiful heart, not a perfect body, that leads to a beautiful life.
— Stephanie Nielson, Heaven Is Here: An Incredible Story of Hope, Triumph, and Everyday Joy
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
— Hillel the Elder
The whole world is not worth one soul.
— Francis de Sales
Other people's heads are too wretched a place for true happiness to have its seat.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays, Vol 1: Parerga
Mirrors are liars. They tell us what we expect to see.
— Susanna Fraser, An Infamous Marriage
These is nothing divine about deprecating your gifts and talents or diminishing their worth in any way. Shining is sharing an abundance with us all.
— Tama Kieves
At the wondrous moment you were born, as you took your first breath, a great celebration was held in the heavens and twelve magnificent gifts were granted to you.
— Charlene Costanzo, The Twelve Gifts of Birth
Charlotte blanched. 'I'm only a maid, miss.''A maid is still a woman.
— Olivia Newport, The Dilemma of Charlotte Farrow
The Church says: the body is a sin.Science says: the body is a machine.Advertising says: The body is a business.The Body says: I am a fiesta.
— Eduardo Galeano, Walking Words
I got a shotgun and a backhoe and no one looks under a septic tank for a dead body. (Bubba)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon, Infinity
The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
— Gilles Deleuze, Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Afterward she lies nestled against me, her hair tickling my face. I stroke her lightly, memorizing her body. I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.
— Sara Gruen, Water for Elephants
It was a bitch living with your old English teacher, especially when your old English teacher wasn’t old at all, and he had exactly the kind of body that most appealed to her, tall and lean, broad in the shoulder, narrow at the hip. Then there was his brain. It had taken her a lot of years to find that particular part of a man appealing, but she’d finally gotten in the habit, and she couldn’t seem to give it up.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Ain't She Sweet
…Those who’ve marred their appearance in any way by their actions in life aren’t forced to witness that marring. If they were, they’d become self-conscious and be unable to concentrate on improving themselves.
— Richard Matheson, What Dreams May Come
...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.
— Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
Which type of wedding gown best suits you?If you are lucky enough to be tall and slender, you can pretty much get away with any type or shape of gown. That is why models are tall and slender—anything looks good on them!
— Meg Cabot, Queen of Babble in the Big City
Look, hasn't my body already felt like the body of a flower?
— Mary Oliver
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
— Alison Bechdel, Are You My Mother?
That was one other time when my whole body reacted to the fear and went out of my own control. My nerves came apart completely, and I started vomiting and vomiting. I couldn't stop. It had been such a narrow escape. I kept telling myself that I could take all of the pressure; but there were those times that my body seemed almost to shut itself down, to scream that what was happening was just too much.
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
But illness does not always write itself upon the body, the sickness I search for is hidden deep within the brain. Sometimes it rises to the surface. Sometimes the face betrays what the body conceals. But there moments, these betrayals, last no longer than an instant. They come, they go, they pass over the patient, darkening and brightening his face like clouds gusting over a meadow. How is it possible, then, to tell what he is suffering when the visible signs of his inner disorder appear so fleetingly upon his face?
— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Madeleine is Sleeping
Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.
— Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Foster