#esteem

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Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.


W.B. Yeats


#self-expression #love

...you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling...


Michael Kelahan


#esteem #feelings #love

If you always try to measure yourself with money... well, it's like counting backwards, the more you keep on, the less you'll have to show for it.


Steven J. Carroll


#gratitude #greed #money #self-esteem #wealth

As you become more aligned with the truth of who you are, the question of liking yourself goes away. It is a natural state of being.


Rachel Andrews


#self-esteem #nature

Men who read it [beauty pornography] don't do so because they want women who look like that. The attraction of what they are holding is that it is not a woman, but a two-dimensional woman-shaped blank. The appeal of the material is not the fantasy that the model will come to life; it is precisely that she will not, ever. Her coming to life would ruin the vision. It is not about life. Ideal beauty is ideal because it does not exist; The action lies in the gap between desire and gratification. Women are not perfect beauties without distance. That space, in a consumer culture, is a lucrative one. The beauty myth moves for men as a mirage, its power lies in its ever-receding nature. When the gap is closed, the lover embraces only his own disillusion.


Naomi Wolf


#beauty #body-image #consumer #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

While he spoke, my very conscience and reason turned traitors against me and charged me with crime in resisting him. They spoke almost as loud as Feeling: and that clamoured wildly. "Oh, comply!" it said. "Think of his misery; think of his danger — look at his state when left alone; remember his headlong nature; consider the recklessness following on despair — soothe him; save him; love him; tell him you love him and will be his. Who in the world cares for you? or who will be injured by what you do?" Still indomitable was the reply — "I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. I will keep the law given by God; sanctioned by man. I will hold to the principles received by me when I was sane, and not mad — as I am now. Laws and principles are not for the times when there is no temptation: they are for such moments as this, when body and soul rise in mutiny against their rigour; stringent are they; inviolate they shall be. If at my individual convenience I might break them, what would be their worth? They have a worth — so I have always believed; and if I cannot believe it now, it is because I am quite insane — quite insane: with my veins running fire, and my heart beating faster than I can count its throbs. Preconceived opinions, foregone determinations, are all I have this hour to stand by: there I plant my foot." I did.


Charlotte Brontë


#empowerment #independence #individuality #integrity #self-assurance

Respect is a really powerful magic too, you know.


Jefferson Smith


#magic #respect #self-esteem #young-adult #respect

People are never able to outperform their self-image.


John C. Maxwell


#self-esteem #self-growth

Surely a good therapist should produce a Dorian Gray-style portrait from under the couch so the patient can see the person they really are.


Rosamund Lupton


#mental-health #self-assessment #self-esteem #mental-health

Women are tenacious, and all of them should be tenacious of respect; without esteem they cannot exist; esteem is the first demand that they make of love.


Honore de Balzac


#demand #esteem #exist #first #love