#esteem

But love your enemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked” (Luke 6:35). ↗

— Michele Woolley

#christian-living #faith #favor #hope #self-esteem

Managing stress is about controlling the way you respond to events and having an open mind about the things that stress you. Learn to talk to God during the day and ask Him to give you peace and to help you with your problems ↗

— Michele Woolley

#faith #favor #self-esteem #faith

I remembered learning from my favorite professor at Belmont to “surround yourself with people who are better than you,” and I was now living that mantra. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#good-people #growing-up #inspirational #learning #lessons

Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#coward #enemies #fearful #low-self-esteem #retreat

I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#love #self-esteem #love

Nourishing yourself in a way that helps you blossom in the direction you want to go is attainable, and you are worth the effort. ↗

— Deborah Day

#nurturing #self-esteem #self-help #self-love #love

When I loved myself enough, I let the tomboy in me swing off the rope in Jackass Canyon. Yes! ↗

— Kim McMillen

#love

A man has only one escape from hid old self: To see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes. ↗

— Clare Boothe Luce

#men #self-esteem #men

But then the pastors and men of God can only be human,--cannot altogether be men of God; and so they have oppressed us, and burned us, and tortured us, and hence come to love palaces, and fine linen, and purple, and, alas, sometimes, mere luxury and idleness. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#self-esteem #love

Never let the opinion of another affect your opinion of yourself. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#motivational #self-esteem #self-worth #motivational