self-worth

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.

What is it, then, that comprises our deepest selves and gives us worth?

i was lieing to myself when I thought I was lost, I have never been lost - I just wasn't ready to be found.

The seventh gift is Talent. May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world.

The tenth gift is Wisdom. Guiding your way, wisdom will lead you through knowledge to understanding. May you hear its soft voice.

What kind of world have we built when it is more acceptable to ask for sex than a cuddle session? _ Have we so stripped our sexuality of inherent value that it becomes the sacrificial lamb on the altar of connection, because everything else is too precious to risk? I'm the first one to say that my body is an amusement park, and I like to have fun with it _ and let other people ride it _ but there is still a divinity in it. It is no less precious than our fears, our smiles, our hopes, our tears. And this goes not just for women, but for all people. I've known men and dominants who felt they could be vulnerable only during sex, and so they would ask for that instead of talking about what was bothering them, or even simply as a distraction from their own thoughts and troubles.

I love Hailey and what we have works. Shes's beautiful, she's smart, she's a great mother, and she's heads above what I ever thought I could see in myself.

Love is the greatest divine force.

If your self-worth is based on anything other than your relationship with Christ, you are in big trouble.

A rich man is most coveted but I'd be damned if I be a poor woman

I wear the word victim like a badge of honor _ my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I'm capable of.

I was beginning to feel compassion for myself.

The boy and the man must be raised to see the possibility of self worth, then meet a few others who provide the vision of a road toward it, then spend a lifetime pursing that worth through action and relationship. One of the great tragedies in human life is to be born a male and not be guided toward the value of a man.

Sometimes you have to be alone to truly know your worth.

Our behavior, our feelings, our self-worth, our abilities, and our actions are never hinged to that of another.-Akiroq

In graduate school, early on, I once overheard a classmate talking in her office as I walked by. She didn't know I was there. She was gossiping about me to a group of our classmates & said I was the affirmative-action student...Rationally, I know it was absurd, but hearing how she & maybe others saw me hurt real bad...I stopped joking about being a slacker. I tripled the number of projects I was involved with. I was excellent most of the time. I fell short some of the time. I made sure I got good grades. I made sure my comprehensive exams were solid. I wrote conference proposals & had them accepted. I published. I designed an overly ambitious research project for my dissertation that kind of made me want to die. No matter what I did, I heard that girl, that girl who had accomplished a fraction of a fraction of what I had, telling a group of our peers I was the one who did not deserve to be in our program.

The best don__ stick around when you treat them poorly, only the desperate do.

If a kid looks like he doesn't give a shit, it's not because he doesn't believe in himself anymore; it's because no one else believes in him.