Sara

“But that’s the thing, Henry, you haven’t been you. You waste so much time on people who don’t deserve you. People who don’t know you, because you don’t let them know you.”
― V.E. Schwab, The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

“We are not moved to change those things whose reality we deny.”
― Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

“People with troubled self-esteem are often uncomfortable in the presence of those with higher self-esteem and may feel resentful and declare, “They have too much self-esteem.”
― Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

“Once again we note that poor self-esteem can show up as lack of generosity toward the contributions of others or a tendency to fear their ability—and, in the case of a leader or manager, an inability to elicit their best from people.”
― Nathaniel Branden, The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem