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Fear of self is the greatest of all terrors, the deepest of all dread, the commonest of all mistakes. From it grows failure. Because of it, life is a mockery. Out of it comes despair.
Self-acceptance is self-love in action.
The sweetness of self-denial and self-control,
Self-conceit may lead to self destruction.
You can let rejection define you. Or you can let it help build a stronger foundation for you to excel on.
I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
Accept the fact that you are accepted, despite the fact that you are unacceptable.
Nothing is harder than to accept oneself.
You've gotta love yourself enough to look INSIDE you & not BESIDE you for your joy, confidence, & self worth.
Embracing human frailty, fallibility, and heartbreaking aloneness is crucial for any person seeking to attain self-actualization and self-realization.
Sometimes we find it hardest to accept in others that which we cling to in ourselves.
It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.
Attempts to help humans eliminate all self-ratings and views self-esteem as a self-defeating concept that encourages them to make conditional evaluations of self. Instead, it teaches people unconditional self-acceptance.
Rejection just motivates me to keep trying and to try to do better.
For years, I tried medication, blade, work, escape, all attempts to drown out that incessant, reverberating drum of self-rejection.
Rejection is the greatest aphrodisiac.
Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.
Rejection brings out the worst in people. Love and acceptance bring out the best.
Self-denial is not denying to ourselves luxuries such as chocolates, cakes, cigarettes and cocktails (although it might include this); it is actually denying or disowning ourselves, renouncing our supposed right to go our own way.
When you accept yourself you are free from the need for others to accept you.
Nothing is loathsomer than the self-loathing of a self one loathes.
Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.
Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.
Of all the traps and pitfalls in life, self-disesteem is the deadliest, and the hardest to overcome: for it is a pit designed and dug by our own hands, summed up in the phrase, 'It's no use - I can't do it.'
If I were to search for the central core of difficulty in people as I have come to know them, it is that in the great majority of cases they despise themselves, regarding themselves as worthless and unlovable.
The recurring theme which predisposes people to depression is rejection and lack of self-esteem.
Give rejection the finger, and rejection gives it back.
The real you, the inner you, loves and adores you; but you cut off that power when you think badly of yourself.
Once you forgive yourself, the self-rejection in your mind is over. Self-acceptance begins, and the self-love will grow so strong that you will finally accept yourself just the way you are. That's the beginning of the free human. Forgiveness is the key.
Rejection is the run in the pantyhose of life.
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and accept the version of you that is expected by everyone else.
Counterintuitively, self-hatred is one of the leading symptoms of clinical narcissism. Only by telling yourself and the world how much you hate yourself can you receive the reliable shower of praise and admiration in response that you feel you deserve ...
Self-love for ever creeps out, like a snake, to sting anything which happens to stumble upon it.
We often fancy that we suffer from ingratitude, while in reality we suffer from self-love.
Egotism fears its own self.
Humankind can tolerate only so much rejection.
There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.
Rejection is simply redirection to the greatness awaiting for you.
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still find myself a self-subsisting and alas! self-seeking me.
Rejection is a challenge.
Self-denial is indulgence of a propensity to forego.
The self is every person's true enemy.
I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.
He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
Self-acceptance should not be confused with an over-vaulting aggrandisement of self over others. That individual's exaggerated positive view of self relies upon a comparison with others - they sustain their own positive self-view, relatively, by maintaining a negative view of others.
We are all hungry for love, acceptance and belonging. Rejection can still feel like death.
Self-esteem, n. An erroneous appraisal.
In order to protest ourselves from being disliked, we question our abilities and downplay our achievements, especially in the presence of others. We put ourselves down before others can.
Self absorption is anti-seductive; it is a sign of insecurity.
Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.
If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected.
Self-acceptance is hard for many of us. There is a voice inside that is constantly judging, first ourselves and then others.
The self is hateful.
I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime guilt- and there is the story of mankind.
Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
Self-confidence is not hope; it is the self-judgment of your own internal forces in their relation to the world without, which results from the failure of many hopes and the non-realization of many fears.
Allport suggested that self-esteem can often be a goal in itself: "most people want to be higher on the status ladder than they are" (p. 371). However, self-enhancement can be based in avoidance as well as approach motives. Insecurity
Few realizations are as demoralizing as knowing that the only thing standing between you and what you want is yourself,
People need to know you have to walk through that rejection, and it's only going to fuel you. If you can somehow look at it like it's a gift, you're just going to regroup, and work harder, and go deeper. So just embrace it.
Self-seeking is self-destruction
Low self esteem results when the inner critic prevails.
Most of us start from nothing, with plenty of rejection. I remind myself of that whenever I get to feeling too important.
Rejection makes you sad and cry, cry it out but not for long because the tears will block good things coming ahead of you
When people are not accepting toward themselves they
are often obsessed with acceptance by others.
There's nothing you could really avoid about giving yourself to somebody who ultimately rejects you. That's just life.
A realization of the universal lack of self-confidence strengthens one's own.
When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.
Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!
Each rejection brings us closer to acceptance.
Self Reflection Is the Key To Success
A modest dose of self-love is entirely healthy - who would want to live in a world where everyone hated themselves? But taken too far, it soon becomes poisonous.
You see, every day, that the people who are seemingly so confident and seemingly so in love with themselves are the ones who are the most insecure and hurting the most inside.
Rejection is a cancer, Edie. It eats away at a person.
Everyone was doing that in their own way, rejecting things and moving on. It's just a part of discovering who you are; it's nothing special.
I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.
Self pity is the sworn enemy of your ambition. It is the number one killer of your aspirations and goals. Give it a foothold in your life and you'll chase away every dream, dreamt and every friend, befriended.
A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
The revulsion from an unwanted self, and the impulse to forget it, mask it, slough it off and lose it, produce both a readiness to sacrifice the self and a willingness to dissolve it by losing one's individual distinctness in a compact collective whole.
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.
It is said that there are three stages of life for those of us who live our lives in circles. These are rejection, exploration, and acceptance.
Life is beyond self.
Rejection hurts so much because we take it as a damning judgement passed not merely on our physical appeal but on our entire selves, and by extension (at this stage we're crying into our pillow, as something by Bach or Leonard Cohen plays on the stereo) on our very right to exist. 2.
One way to eliminate self negating thoughts and behavior is by gaining more understanding through realizing that you cannot force others to see that what you feel is real.
Self-expression is a hard and selfish thing. It eats everything, even the self. At the end you find you haven't even got a self to express.
Self-esteem is a balloon filled with wind, from which great tempests surge when it is pricked
Sometimes I feel my whole life has been one big rejection.
Others letting you down is ice cream and cookies compared with the rejection of your own soul. I don't know what is sadder, expecting myself to fail or being too scared to dream of success.
To deny oneself is to act no more from the standing ground of self.... No longing after the praise of men influence a single throb of the heart.
Right deeds, and not the judgment thereupon; true words, and not what reception they may have, shall be our concern.
What would someone who loves themselves do?
Rejection. Rejection. You can't handle rejection!
To increase your level of self acceptance, think of your unique talents and abilities.
There is nothing one fears more or is more ashamed of than not being oneself. Yet few people realize even an approximation of their true potential. Most people must live with varying degrees of the shame and fear of not being fully in control of themselves.
Denying self isn't a one-time thing, but a daily task.
I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to this ground.
In my early career I was like a goldfish. Rejection didn't affect me; I'd just forget how bad it was and keep going back for more.
Rejection is inevitable. The goal is to minimize it.
Dare to love yourself
Where we see self esteem, we see self acceptance. High self esteem individual tend to avoid falling into an adversarial relationship with themselves.
Successful self-actualization can prevent inferiority complexes
The depressed and the suicidal are often lonely and inhibited. Discussions of inhibition in this context usually emphasize fear of rejection.