"People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds, as if they believe that the world is always contemplating their individual charms and virtues."
— Elizabeth Gaskell

"I'm not a wannabe. I'm who I wannabe."
— Hawk Nelson

"There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore."
— Laurie Halse Anderson

"Self pity becomes your oxygen. But you learned to breathe it without a gasp. So, nobody even notices you're hurting."
— Paul Monette

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
— Norman Vincent Peale

"If a woman doesn't treasure herself, how can a man treasure her?"
— Kay Bergdahl

"Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth."
— Iyanla Vanzant

"As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation."
— Hans Selye

"Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. "
— M. Scott Peck

"Our musicians in residence carry this belief into the classroom. They don't think of children's self-esteem as so fragile that it will be shattered by the suggestion that the child guessed wrong or jumped to an invalid conclusion. They make corrections matter-of-factly, with no feeling that a chid is a failure because she has made an error, but with ocnfidence that the feedback will help the child learn and be accurate the next time."
— Peter Perret (A Well-Tempered Mind: Using Music to Help Children Listen and Learn)

"Wer sich selbst wegwirft, dem ist nicht zu helfen."
— Meng Dse

"Last time I talked to her she didn't sound like herself. She's depressed. It's awful what happens when people run out of money. They start thinking they're
no good."
— Barbara Kingsolver (Pigs in Heaven)

"Sicher gibt es kein größeres Geschenk für einen Menschen als das, was all seine Ziele zu brennenden Lippen und alles Leben zu einem Brunnen macht."
— Kahlil Gibrán