Zadie Smith Quotes

Be worthy love, and love will come.

It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

Ask me not what I have, but what I am.

Generally speaking, I went through that. I came to a place where I realised what true value was. It wasn't money. Money is a means to achieving an end, but it's not the end.

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds.

We all make the mistake thinking that how you look makes you more worthy of love.

You don't love causes. You don't love everybody indiscriminately. You love only those who deserve it.

If we want to fully experience love and belonging, we must believe that we are worthy of love and belonging.

prayer, and only prayer, restores my vision to one that more resembles God's. i awake from blindness to see that wealth lurks as a terrible danger, not a goal worth striving for; that value depends not on race or status but on the image of God every person bears; that no amount of effort to improve physical beauty has much relevance for the world beyond.

Scarcity of self value cannot be remedied by money, recognition, affection, attention or influence.

Intellectually, I know I am worthy, however arbitrary a thing worthiness is, and have always been worthy.

You are worthy because you were born.

Prize not thyself by what thou hast, but by what thou art; he that values a jewel by her golden frame, or a book by her silver clasps, or a man by his vast estate, errs; if thou art not worth more than the world can make thee, thy Redeemer had a bad pennyworth, or thou an uncurious Redeemer.

You love only those who deserve it.

In the largest scheme of things, just as no one has the right to tell us our true value, no one has the right to tell us what we truly owe.

You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what's special in you.

A man's ledger does not tell what he is, or what he is worth. Count what is in man, not what is on him, if you would know what he is worth-whether rich or poor.

What's important is not the uniform or the number, and it's not what team you play for or whether anyone else sees your value; it's who you are on the inside. And when you're in Christ, that's never going to change.

The most real of all splendors are not in outward things, they are within us.

We are more than what we do... much more than what we accomplish... far more than what we possess.

When you love you should not think you can direct the course of love, for love, if it finds you worthy, directs your course.

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

There's so many great films coming out. It's still kind of astonishing to me how certain films get ignored, and that film ended up getting ignored and didn't get the attention that it deserved at Sundance.

Is a man one whit the better because he is grown great in other men's esteem?