Self Esteen Quotes

...I prefer rain -sometimes I feel sunlight will turn me to stone - perhaps I'm a Troll...

Society conspires against her from early infancy. Her brain is steadily filled with plaster until it sets: ‘If you’re not married by the time you’re twenty-five, you’ll have good reason to be ashamed’; ‘if you laugh, you won’t look dignified’ ; ‘if your face betrays your feelings, you’ll look coarse’; ‘if you mention the existence of a single body hair, you’re repulsive’ ; ‘if a boy kisses you on the cheek in public, you’re a whore’; if you enjoy eating, you’re a pig’; ‘if you take pleasure in sleeping, you’re no better than a cow’; and so on.These precepts would be merely anecdotal if they weren’t taken so much to heart.

Amélie Nothomb

You will never choose love greater than what you believe you deserve and what other insecure people tell your lack of self esteem to have faith in.

Shannon L. Alder