#worth

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz ↗

— William L.K.

#kindle-books #science-fiction #short-story #worth-reading #science

I can physically see the effort it takes for him to open his mouth and force out the words. He's spent so much of his life not being seen, not being heard, that he's forgotten how to realize anything he says does hold weight and is important. ↗

— Kelley York

#worthiness #you-matter #life

He's attracted to the smell of manure," Felicity says. "You might wallow in the stables to bring out the full flower of his love. ↗

— Libba Bray

#humor #libba-bray #rebel-angels #humor

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#holy #love #worthy #love

You don’t know?” he whispered harshly. “You truly don’t know that you mean everything to me?” Hardly daring to believe her ears, Mia pushed at his chest to put a little distance between them so she could look up at his face. “I do?” “Of course, you do.” His gaze burned into her with an intensity she had never seen before. “How could you doubt it?” “Are . . . are you saying you love me?” she asked tremulously, afraid to even voice such a possibility. What if he said no? What if she’d misunderstood him, and he would now laugh at her silliness? Her chest tightened in anxious anticipation. “Mia, I love you more than life itself,” he said, his voice rough with emotion. “If anything happened to you . . . If you were gone, I would not want to go on living. Do you understand me? ↗

— Anna Zaires

#life

How you see and depict yourself will be the exact way people will treat you--Period, Think your worth millions, people will treat you like millions, think pennies, get treated like pennies ↗

— Treasure Blue

#self-worth #self-worth

It's not enough merely to exist. Every man has to seek in his own way to make his own self more noble and to relize his own true worth. ↗

— Albert Schweitzer

#self-worth

Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#friends

You matter, Mama repeated. Not because of whose son you are. Because of who you are. You're as important as every other human being that ever was or ever will be. Everyone matters. ↗

— Kimberley Brubaker Bradley

#self-worth #self-worth

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