#elf

Real self-worth comes from mastery, from getting good at something. It doesn't matter what. Then you don't have to worry about empty compliments. You don't worry about what other people think. You have self-respect. ↗

— Albert Borris

#respect

What Douglas had once seen as the attractive over-confidence of youth, now looked more like unyielding selfishness. ↗

— Len Deighton

#love #selfishness #ss-gb #youth #love

If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#charles-bukowski #self-love #love

You are not broken. You are not a problem to be solved. Solving your “problem”, whatever you perceive your problem or problems to be, is not the key to happiness. ↗

— Golda Poretsky

#empowerment #self-help #self-knowledge #self-love #love

It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: "If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#self-esteem #self-hatred #self-love #love

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#self-discovery #love

I've heard people say that they lose themselves in a kiss. But in that moment, it was the opposite for me. I felt like I found myself. Not how I wished I was, or who I was afraid I was becoming, but who I really was. ↗

— Jon Skovron

#kissing #love #self-discovery #love

I don't have to look for love, because I am love. ↗

— Euphoria Godsent

#completeness #confidence #empowerment #euphoria-godsent #fulfillment

Reality denied comes back to haunt. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#history #psychology #self-deception #behavior

Either he's shaken by something or he's falling off the wagon hard and fast. Great. Just my luck to be partnered with an alcoholic angel. ↗

— Susan Ee

#susan-ee #luck