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Self-worth quotes for when you're hard on yourself
Someone tells you that you did well, and you've got an explanation ready before they finish the sentence. Later a small mistake gets a much longer hearing, in a voice you'd never use on a friend.
People who have eased this a little mention remembering that a feed is edited, and that others started with different help and different timelines. Muting a few accounts comes up often. So does the discovery that people who look sure of themselves in meetings have often felt the same way inside.
Your appearance gets left alone here, and you won't be ordered to love anything. The lines are warm and plain, written for the room where everyone seems more qualified, and the changing room too.
The moments
- An hour of scrolling, comparing your life with edited ones
- A compliment you can't accept
- Sure you'll be found out at work
- A small mistake and a very harsh inner voice
- A room where everyone seems more qualified
- Turning something down because you doubted yourself
What people say helps
- Remembering that feeds are curated and edited
- Muting the accounts that set the comparison off
- Talking to themselves the way they would to a friend
- Knowing other people have different support and different timelines
“Just love yourself” and “confidence is a choice” turn a hard feeling into one more thing you're doing badly.
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Quill Originals
Compliment received. No need to file an appeal.
You've read that sent email nine times. It's fine.
You're the only one running that inspection.
Walking in late feels bigger from the inside.
Your sibling's news isn't your report card.
You're allowed to be learning this late.
You're still that kid, with more bills.
Some people had a head start you never heard about.
You can sing badly. The kitchen doesn't mind.
Court is adjourned. Go to bed.
Have the nice evening. Nobody's checking whether you qualified.
Imagine someone saying all this about your best friend.
The person you planned to be at this age was invented by a teenager.
Someone lights up at your name, and looks have nothing to do with it.
Most people would rather sit with someone kind than someone impressive.
First time being a person. Expect errors.
Their good news doesn't use up any of yours.
Your life didn't change in the last ten minutes. Your feed did.
Close the app. Nobody is taking attendance.
You were hired on purpose.
If an account leaves you feeling worse each time, it can go.
You made a mistake. Your friends still like you.
Popular sayings
The best revenge is living well.
Good enough is good enough.
Every dog has its day.
From the books
You are no more to concern yourself how the world talks of you, but how you are to talk to yourself.
Read the passage around this line
… to one another, or you to yourself. Let the people be to you one, and be you one to the whole people. ‘Tis an unworthy ambition to think to derive glory from a man’s sloth and privacy: you are to do like the beasts of chase, who efface the track at the entrance into their den. You are no more to concern yourself how the world talks of you, but how you are to talk to yourself. Retire yourself into yourself, but first prepare yourself there to receive yourself: it were a folly to trust yourself in your own hands, if you cannot govern yourself. A man may miscarry alone as well as in company. Till you have rendered yourself one before whom you dare not …
The freest song comes not through bars and wires.
Set bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky.
Read the passage around this line
The movement of life has its rest in its own music. 228 Kicks only raise dust and not crops from the earth. 229 Our names are the light that glows on the sea waves at night and then dies without leaving its signature. 230 Let him only see the thorns who has eyes to see the rose. 231 Set bird's wings with gold and it will never again soar in the sky. 232 The same lotus of our clime blooms here in the alien water with the same sweetness, under another name. 233 In heart's perspective the distance looms large. 234 The moon has her light all over the sky, her dark spots to herself. 235 Do not say, "It is morning," and dismiss it with a name of
One’s own life—that is the important thing.
Read the passage around this line
“To be good is to be in harmony with one’s self,” he replied, touching the thin stem of his glass with his pale, fine-pointed fingers. “Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others. One’s own life—that is the important thing. As for the lives of one’s neighbours, if one wishes to be a prig or a Puritan, one can flaunt one’s moral views about them, but they are not one’s concern. Besides, individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one’s age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.”
Life alone can impart life; and though we should burst we can only be valued as we make ourselves valuable.
What? have you not lived? that is not only the fundamental, but the most illustrious, of your occupations.
Assent, and you are sane; Demur, — you're straightway dangerous, And handled with a chain.
The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know that he is his own.
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