Jenna Wortham Quotes

You cannot belong to anyone else, until you belong to yourself.

I don't need anyone to rectify my existence. The most profound relationship we will ever have is the one with ourselves.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Women must learn to find self-worth within themselves, not through others. It is important to carve out a place just for you.

I thought, 'O.K., if I'm a valuable person and an independent entity, then I don't have to worry about what people think of me. I can reach out now.'

You've gotta learn to love yourself and live your own life. Then you can go out in the world and try and figure everything else out.

It doesn't matter what people think of me. I've lived my life.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

I'm at peace with myself. The main thing is not letting people dictate what I do or what I am.

You come to a point in your life when you really don't care what people think about you, you just care what you think about yourself.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.

What I try to do is live with myself and please me. If I can't do that, I can't please anybody else or live with anybody else.

I decided after my last divorce to marry myself.

I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.

There's gonna be people that don't like you, regardless. But I take on the mentality of, 'Look, I'm gonna do whatever I want to do. If people don't like, they don't like it.'

I was able to start building my confidence and know that I don't need anybody to be happy.

You're not free in life until you're free of wanting other people's approval.

It takes a lot for you to find your confidence, but you shouldn't let someone else be the person to find it for you.

It's very important for females to feel empowered. It took me a long time to find that inside me.

I feel good about who I am.

I've realised that I am who I am and that is it. Like it or lump it. I'm not around to please anyone any more, and it's a huge relief.

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

I love to reinvent myself, and that's because I am a very free person. I do what I feel, and I love who I am.