Kim Mathers Quotes

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

I hear my friends and my mom tell me I'm special, but honestly, I still don't get it.

I was so ashamed of who I was.

I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.

I'm not a beautiful person and I never have been.

Feeling comfortable in my own skin has never been easy for me.

I've always struggled so much just to appreciate myself.

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.

Everybody is looking for validation, no matter who you are, and I think that's a need of the human condition - to look for affection or recognition or validation.

I've suffered from low self-esteem.

I don't think I am narcissistic. I think I have low self-esteem.

I suffer the terrible disease of low self-esteem.

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.

I gave up on my looks a long time ago.

Self-love seems so often unrequited.

I love me some me.

I had low self-esteem.

I've been looking around, and I noticed something: how much you really need to be loved. Ambition isn't just a desperate quest for positions or money. It's just love - lots of love.

I feel like I deserve to be loved because I've learned to love myself.

I still have a lot of moments where I don't feel worthy.

Nobody loves me as much as I love me, so I guess I'll just be my own valentine.

More than anything, whether it's my dad's fault or whatever, I wouldn't allow myself to be loved. I lived most of my life thinking that I was unlovable, that I was broken goods, or whatever.

Start by writing down ten positive words to describe yourself. Write them on a card - the size of a business card will do - and bring it out whenever you feel insecure or your self-esteem is running low. Bring it out before you walk into a big party or go to an important meeting. It will help you, believe me. Carry it everywhere.

People who have trouble finding acceptance and love in their life settle for whatever they can get.