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Encourage don't belittle, embrace their individuality. And show them that no matter what they will always have value if they stay true to themselves. ↗

— Solange nicole

#children #inspirtaion #kids #solange #bullying

Sorrow can be a bully. ↗

— Amy Waldman

#healing #therapy #bullying

Ralon didn't make anyone else put his tack away?" Alex wanted to know. "You didn't see anything strange?" Alanna didn't look up. "No." It wasn't strange , she excused her lie mentally. Ralon does things like that all the time. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#bully #lying #ralon #strange #bullying

In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the general will, or some petty abuse of authority. If you have a political loyalty, you may be offered a shady reason for agreeing to a lie or a half-truth that serves some short-term purpose. Everybody devises tactics for getting through such moments; try behaving "as if" they need not be tolerated and are not inevitable. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#freethought #philosophy #bullying

Suddenly I grasped what was happening- they were all trying to save me. I never thought I was worth saving. ↗

— Albert Borris

#self-worth #self-worth

Self-preservation isn't worth it if you can't live with the self you're preserving ↗

— David Levithan

#every-day #self-worth

You've got to say what you mean and mean what you say...Doubt in your voice is an open door people will shove right through. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#self-worth

The enemy uses those things your insecure about. Free yourself and take your power back by being secure in who you are - flaws and all. ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#don-t-give-up #insecurity #self-worth #self-worth

But then Froi looked back to where his work lay unfinished and it made him sad because there had been something about the touch of earth in his hands that made him feel worthwhile. ↗

— Melina Marchetta

#self-worth

I hate the thought that I'm just some kind of Russian nesting doll with the big outside and inevitably, rattling around under all the layers, a crude little peg with a face is the truth of me. ↗

— Wendy McClure

#self-loathing #self-worth #self-worth