“Natural selection shaped us to care enormously about what other people think about our resources, abilities, and character. This is what self-esteem is all about. We constantly monitor how much others value us. Low self-esteem is a signal to try harder to please others.”
Source: Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry
“I like myself. I'm glad I'm me.”
Source: I Like Myself!: A Story About Self-Esteem and Self-Acceptance
“La sofferenza peggiore non è essere abbandonati dagli altri, ma abbandonare se stessi”
Source: Platone, c'ho l'ansia
“CHARGE FORTH, STRIKE DOWN OUR FOES AND BRING WASTE TO THE CITY STREETS! LET OUR VICTORY BE SO MONUMENTAL THAT IT IS FELT THROUGHOUT ALL OF AFFER!”
Source: The Quest for Freedom
“Self-esteem
is like plastic
It can be bent
so easily
Even if you
try to smooth out
the plastic,
there will always be a crease
where the plastic
was bent”
Source: For the Intellect
“I recollected the time when my preschool teacher called my ability to make images in my mind out of abstract things my “superpower,” so I decided that I should be a superhero, and as a superhero, the first person I will be saving is myself.”
Source: For the Intellect
“Refrain (by Jan Warren)
Pick up your clothes, make your bed, is that a basket of ironing stuffed into your closet? How can you find anything in there? Clean it out, you´re not going to the park until it's done and I want you to take your sister with you, don't give me that look, just wait until your father comes home; I've never seen such a lazy kid, how did I ever get lucky enough to have you to deal with, you've got a chip on your shoulder; no, you can´t spend the night, because I said so, straighten that bedspread; wake up, you´ll be late for school, come right home after, I need you to go to the store and don't take forever, dinner has to be sometime tonight; set the table, make the salad, clean out the wastepaper basket, feed the dogs, sweep the floor, don't let the flies in, close that door, do you think money grows on trees, don't give me that look, just wait till your father gets home; who was that on the phone, why is he calling here? don´t talk to strangers, who was that walking with you, you better not have them hanging around, because I said so, you're too young, he's a boy, that's different, because I said so, that skirt is too short, take off that makeup, you look like a hussy in those fishnet stockings, where did you get that, you'll have to take it back, don't give me that look, just wait till your father gets home; the store called me today--you've taken practically nude pictures, you better stop or I'll tell your father, you're getting too big for your britches young lady, nice girls don't do things like that, keep going and you'll see what happens... don't give me that look...”
Source: Aliens at the Border: the Writing Workshop, Bedford Hills Correctional Facility
“My life is defined by a desire to be outward followed by a fear of being seen.”
“Our identity is wrapped up in what others think of us—or, more accurately, what we think others think of us.”
Source: Domā kā mūks: iemāci prātam mieru un mērķi katru dienu
“For the record, I am the record.”
Source: Order in the Courtroom: The Tale of a Texas Poker Player