John Steinbeck Quotes

If the best of one's feelings means nothing to the person most concerned in those feelings, what reality is left us?

Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

Cherish your own emotions and never undervalue them.

You gotta love yourself, because when you're hurting - you never know who's gonna be around to do the lovin' for ya. You gotta love yourself through the pain.

What could he mean by speaking so, as if I were always thinking that he cared for me, when I know he does not; he cannot. ... But I won't care for him. I surely am mistress enough of myself to control this wild, strange, miserable feeling

there are only so many ways to get rejected or ignored. It doesn't hurt at all anymore because why should someone who's a complete stranger have any control over your sense of selfworth?

Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.

But what are loyalty and caring really worth?" "To me? Everything.

No one can ever heap enough insults upon me to suit my taste. I think we all really thrive on hostility, because it's the most intense kind of massage the ego can undergo. Other people's indifference is the only horror.

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

I see people giving me looks because I'm so opinionated. That hurts my feelings, but at the end of the day I have to live with me and respect myself. And I've done enough things in my life where I was confused and didn't respect myself that I will not do it any more.

I don't spend a lot of time feeling sorry for myself, trying to compare how many records I've sold or how much money I've made.

What made you feel that stomach-churning agony for one person and not another? If Bridget were God, she would have made it against the law for you to feel that way about someone without them having to feel it for you right back.

Pushing me away so I give her space, awww. Dealing wit a heart that I didn't break.

Console yourself by remembering that the world doesn't deserve your affection.

When someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself.

Chasing after a guy who's not interested in you will rip the hell out of your self-respect. Better to face facts now because the longer you put it off, the harder it'll be.

There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.

Caroline says as she gets up from the floor, you can hit me all you want to, but I don't love you anymore.

These men are worth your tears. You are not worth their merriment.

There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. The pain I felt let me know I was still alive.

It surely is far better to be disliked by somebody you don't love than by somebody you do. Even so, I mind. Even so, failing to love somebody is a failure.

Inner sense of worth that comes with being in love does not seem to depend essentially on whether the love is returned or not.

We find worth in jobs, money, & performance so we can hide how worthless we feel inside. Acknowledge the pain to be healed.