Marya Hornbacher Quotes

Self-worth is an understanding on the intellectual level, trusting at the heart level, and accepting at the soul level that you are worthy just because you believe that you are. Your worthiness is proven by your existence. Your breathing. The beating of your heart. Your mere presence is all that is needed to establish your worth.

In every aspect of our lives, we are always asking ourselves, How am I of value? What is my worth? Yet I believe that worthiness is our birthright.

You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe.

Beneath our frantic activities, there's a deep desire to show the world we are worthwhile.

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!

TRUTH: When a child believes he must win to be worthy, when young adults define themselves by what they do and not who they are, it is a kind of slavery a slave master would envy.

I am worth loving. I do not have to earn love. I am lovable because I exist. Others reflect the love I have for myself.

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person.

If in our hearts we really don't believe that God loves us as we are, if we are still tainted by the lie that we can do something to make God love us more, we are rejecting the message of the cross.

Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.

Maybe life isn't meaningless...Maybe just YOUR life is meaningless

You're special-not because of what you have. You're special because of who you are.

To offer our hearts in faith means recognizing that our hearts are worth something, that we ourselves, in our deepest and truest nature, are of value.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing.

There was only one variable that separated the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging and the people who really struggle for it. And that was, the people who have a strong sense of love and belonging believe they're worthy of love and belonging. That's it. They believe they're worthy.

Pride works _from within_; it is the direct appreciation of oneself. Vanity is the desire to arrive at this appreciation indirectly, from without.

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

We must return to the fundamentals; the fundamentals being that you count. That is where you start from. That you count; you matter for God. That is a fantastic realization, and one that very few of us actually get to accept.

We want to believe we couldn't be replaced, and that the people we love are irreplaceable.

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

Being needed was a handy trick. It could fill you up so full you never even noticed all the places that were empty.

Movements toward freedom and the self-respect that comes from something other than what people think is their most important feature.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important, and with that in mind I regard everyone as special. A manager should feel this way about people, but it's an attitude that can't be faked. You've got to be honestly convinced that every human being is important.

I believe in work. If somebody doesn't create something, however small it may be, he gets sick. An awful lot of people feel that they're treading water -- that if they vanished in smoke, it wouldn't mean anything at all in this world. And that's a despairing and destructive feeling. It'll kill you.