Diana Wynne Jones Quotes

Your self-worth has nothing to do with your craft or calling, and everything to do with how you treat yourself.

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

You set the standards for how you will be treated. People will treat you the exact way you treat yourself. So be good to you. Take time for yourself. Rest. Play. Shower yourself with affection, support, and gifts.

If you don't know your worth, if you don't know your value, if you don't know how fantabulous you are - it's going to be hard for other people to see it. Being appreciative of self is beauty to me.

I think one great tip is that you should always love yourself. If you don't love yourself, take care of yourself, cater to yourself and that little inner voice, you will really not be very worthy of being with someone else, because you won't be the best version of you.

Respect yourself if you would have others respect you.

You have to choose whether to love yourself or not.

Give to yourself as much as you give of yourself! This means you have to put yourself first.

Accept yourself, love yourself.

Self-esteem is made up primarily of two things: feeling lovable and feeling capable. Lovable means I feel people want to be with me. They invite me to parties; they affirm I have the qualities necessary to be included. Feeling capable is knowing that I can produce a result. It's knowing I can handle anything that life hands me.

But, clearly to me, what I've come to see is that that happened because I didn't have enough feelings of self-worth. So that I didn't feel that... I was worthy of being number one to a man.

Nobody is more worthy of love in the entire universe than you. I wish I had reminded myself of that more.

It's OK showing yourself some love.

If you don't love yourself, you can't love anybody else. And I think as women we really forget that.

The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

But it's important, while we are supporting lessons in respecting others, to remember that many of our youngest kids need to learn to respect themselves. You learn your worth from the way you are treated.

You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.

I think it's really important to remind, reinforce people that their lives have value, you know? That their lives have worth.

In India, we are parented in a way that we get very good values. But the whole culture forgets to tell us to also value ourselves. It's really OK sometimes to take into consideration your own happiness.

Only if you love yourself, only if you're happy with yourself and only if you know your own worth will you ever be happy.

I just think girls need to value themselves much more than they do.

Definitely love yourself.

Self-love is for everyone and we all need it!

You can't value others until you value yourself.