Ann B. Davis Quotes

Total self acceptance is empowering. It means allowing others to see you as they choose, without being offended.

Failure doesn't have anything to do with your intrinsic value as a person.

The fact that God accepts us should be our motivation for accepting ourselves. If we cannot accept ourselves the way we are, with our limitations and assets, weaknesses as well as strengths, shortcomings as well as abilities; then we cannot trust anyone else to accept us the way we are. We will always be putting on a front, building a facade around ourselves, never letting people know what we are really like deep down inside.

If you don’t find a way to love a flawed person, secretly you’re teaching yourself that you are not lovable because of your flaws.

Here's what is truly at the heart of wholeheartedness: Worthy now, not if, not when, we're worthy of love and belonging now. Right this minute. As is.

Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect. When we don't have that, we shape-shift and turn into chameleons; we hustle for the worthiness we already possess.

Our sense of belonging can never be greater than our level of self acceptance.

Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.

Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!

I am worth loving. I do not have to earn love. I am lovable because I exist. Others reflect the love I have for myself.

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

How can you blame others for disrespecting you when you think of yourself as unworthy of respect?

Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.

If you can't stand yourself, neither can anybody else!

Self-esteem is the goddamn root of all evil.

The reputation you have with yourself - your self-esteem - is the single most important factor for a fulfilling life.

A lot of people say if you can't love yourself, then you can't love others. It's always different, but I definitely have loved a lot in my life.

Total, unconditional acceptance of yourself is the first step in building a positive self-image.

Whatever you are is all okay. I don't like you anyway.

Comparison is a brutal assault upon one's self. Once you compare yourself to someone else, what you're really saying is that what you're made of isn't good enough.

Any form of measuring yourself by the unkind action of another towards you is like looking into a badly fractured mirror... and then blaming yourself for the shattered image you see therein.

Your value should not be determined by how somebody else has treated you.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.