#esteem

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

Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others. ↗

— Debra Beck

#self-esteem #unconditional-love #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

How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself? ↗

— Sean King

#love #self #self-esteem #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

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

#poverty #self-esteem #money

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

— Teresa Mummert

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

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