Bob Greene Quotes

Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul.

We can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.

A sense of worthiness is a child's most important need.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

Depression is the inability to construct a future.

I love myself and I am a good person.

If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.

I wish I had thrown out the bathroom scale at age 16. Weighing yourself every morning is like waking up and asking Dick Cheney to validate your sense of inner worth.

There is no way to reach your fullest potential if you don't really find the love of yourself.

My very addictive personality and all sorts of strongholds are a thing of the past for me. Yet at the root of every single one of those issues was insecurity, something I had battled since childhood.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

What you believe is very powerful. If you have toxic emotions of fear, guilt and depression, it is because you have wrong thinking, and you have wrong thinking because of wrong believing.

For so many years, I felt so insecure, so inferior, and I still have those moments, but I have a newfound confidence since I got in shape and changed my diet.

Well, I think everyone struggles with self-love.

People tend to look great if they feel great.

Lately though I've been in love with myself and I've become my own best friend.

I am unable to give my best if I don't have my best to give.

Every day is a reminder to accept myself as I am.

From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.

So much is a man worth as he esteems himself.

I spent my life figuring out ways to make the room OK with me.

You have to accept who you are in order to make someone happy and be happy.

Yes, I talk about eating disorders and you know, excessive dieting and excessive exercising can be a sign of a mental illness... but when we talk about eating disorders... the issue is not the food or the exercise, the issue is a lack of healthy conception of self. That is the issue.