Sarah Dessen Quotes

A bad relationship can do that, can make you doubt everything good you ever felt about yourself.

Toxic people defy logic. Some are blissfully unaware of the negative impact that they have on those around them, and others seem to derive satisfaction from creating chaos and pushing other people's buttons.

I had a year of therapy and I swear to God, I went in that with a certain level of self-love, but not enough to keep me out of bad relationships, not enough to try and save people who were toxic for me, not enough to recognise when something was bad, to walk away.

Stop Bullying. No one deserves to feel worthless.

When you get bullied, you automatically think that you're the reason why you're getting bullied. The reality is, it's about them, not you... I'm all about blocking people. I'm all about saying, 'You know what, I don't need this in my life.'

You don't have to listen to those mean girls. They're just there to make you upset and make you feel bad about yourself. And you know, inside, they feel bad about themselves too. But they don't wanna admit it to anybody.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

When somebody has convinced you that you're not worth anything to anybody anymore, and they spend a lot of time doing it, you start believing it yourself.

Love yourself instead of abusing yourself.

I'd been around women who put me down, made me feel bad, or said things to fuel my insecurity.

You can say no to people who make you feel bad about yourself. To people who backstab you or make you feel anxious in any way.

As important as it is to learn how to deal with different kinds of people, truly toxic people will never be worth your time and energy - and they take a lot of each. Toxic people create unnecessary complexity, strife, and, worst of all, stress.

There's only so many times you can read how ugly you are and how much people hate you.

A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

People just get kicks out of making other people sad.

Go empower yourself. You need confidence because the one thing that bullying does is it belittles you, and it takes away your confidence, and nobody deserves that.

If you are in a toxic relationship, that poisons you everywhere else in your life.

If anyone says negative things about me, then it stays with me for many years.

If you constantly beat yourself up with negative thoughts, you will either beat up on the people around you- verbally, emotionally, or physically- or you will beat up on yourself by destroying some area of your own life.

If you chose to be with an abusive man, a powerful, abusive man, it reflects something about who you are and what you want for yourself.

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.

You'll never get a boyfriend if you look like you wandered out of Auschwitz.

I feel like our future is our confidence and self-esteem.

Resentment and anger are not good for the soul. They are foul things.

Is self-esteem a sickness? That's according to the way you define it. In the usual way it is defined by people and by psychologists, I'd say that it is probably the greatest emotional disturbance known to man and woman.