“I have been dating someone who treats my heart like it's monkey meat. I feel like a delusional invisible person half the time, so I need to learn what it's like to be treated well before it's too late for me.”— Lena Dunham, Hannah Horvath, amazon.com
“Perfectionism is searching for faults to justify low self-esteem. It is a guaranteed failure and fantasy.”— Brittany Burgunder, amazon.com
“You'll get this when you believe that you're worth it. You'll get this when you stop settling for good, stop justifying poor excuses and half-assed compliments, and are ready to open up your heart to great. Start believing that you have everything to offer.”— Emily Abbate, thestir.cafemom.com
“When you have low self-worth you will love mostly anyone willing to love you, and you often end up settling for less, becoming less and believe less in yourself and in love. To have more you must be committed to being more. Loving yourself attracts someone to love you as you love yourself. It all st…”— Sherrie Campbell, huffingtonpost.com
“By constantly thinking down on yourself, you're conditioning yourself to accept lower standards and mediocrity—the exact opposite of what you want to accomplish.”— Randall Degges, lifehacker.com
“What keeps us in bad relationships isn’t that all men are jerks or that relationships are so hard or that we’re unworthy or that all the good guys are taken. What keeps us in bad relationships is low self-esteem. When you don’t value yourself, you will accept and even welcome people who don’t value…”— Sabrina Alexis, thoughtcatalog.com
“If a man says that he's too damaged for you (or too neurotic, or too anything), just take his word for it. Even if it is his low self-esteem talking, you're not going to be able to fix him. And it's probably just a euphemism for I'm just not feeling it.”— Jen Anderson, yourtango.com
“Practicing self-love means learning how to trust ourselves, to treat ourselves with respect, and to be kind and affectionate toward ourselves.”— Brené Brown, amazon.com
“Self-esteem refers to how you perceive and feel about yourself in general.”— Carla Loving, amazon.com
“Think of a healthy self-esteem as some sort of armor that shields us from the arrows of hopelessness, excessive fear and depression.”— Peter Kaplan, amazon.com
“Happiness doesn’t come from what you buy, where you shop, what you wear or even by what other people think of you. Real happiness comes from within.”— Lakeysha-Marie Green, amazon.com
“We all know one-night stands aren’t cure-alls for broken hearts and low self-esteem. That shit can backfire hard. We’ve all tried some form of remedy by way of sex and wound up feeling even more alone and running back to whatever dickface we’d just found the strength to leave.”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com
“If you want crappy things to stop happening to you, stop accepting crap and demand something more.”— Stacy McKee, Dr. Cristina Yang, Sandra Oh, imdb.com
“There are only two possible sources of love for the self from oneself and from others.”— James Gilligan, internationalpsychoanalysis.net
“I promise to be gentle with myself. Because in an argument with myself, I’ll always lose.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“This is the only face and body you're ever going to get, so be comfortable and happy in it. Own it. Own every aspect of who you are and present it to the world with the utmost pride.”— Connor Franta, amazon.com
“When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that whil…”— Tom Robbins, amazon.com