{"author":"Kimberly Giles","author_id":"Kimberly+Giles","total_quotes":28,"quotes":[{"text":"No one can repair your self-esteem for you. Your spouse cannot fix it. Your parents cannot fix it. Your boss cannot fix it. No amount of success or beauty enhancements can fix it. You have to fix it by changing the way you see yourself. You have to choose to see yourself accurately, to see life as a classroom, and commit to the policy that you have the same value no matter how you perform. It is time to claim the power to do this and not let anyone take your self-esteem from you again.","author":"Kimberly Giles","tags":["self-esteem","self-esteem-or-lack-thereof"],"id":25485,"author_id":"Kimberly+Giles"},{"text":"At this very moment you are probably basing your value on how other people value you, even though most of the time, you don’t even know what these people really think. You are assuming what they think based on behavior you interpreted. In truth, most people don’t think about you at all. They are too focused on their own stuff. And if they do think about you, they probably don’t think what you think they think. You are most likely projecting your own fears of not being good enough onto them. What you think they think tells you more about your own opinion of yourself than theirs.","author":"Kimberly Giles","tags":["fear-of-what-others-think-of-you","opinion","opinions-of-others"],"id":27050,"author_id":"Kimberly+Giles"},{"text":"All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation.","author":"Kimberly Giles","tags":["attention","bad-behavior","love","validation"],"id":28689,"author_id":"Kimberly+Giles"},{"text":"You will have the ability to see other people accurately as divine, amazing, irreplaceable, human beings in the process, just like you. You will have the ability to forgive them and live in wisdom and compassion. You can do this because all of these qualities are in you. In fact, they are who you really are.","author":"Kimberly Giles","tags":["compassion","forgive","wisdom"],"id":49384,"author_id":"Kimberly+Giles"},{"text":"The universe uses every experience you have to help you grow and learn. No experience is wasted. Every choice you make and everything that happens to you because of other people’s choices become your perfect lessons. As you learn to trust this truth, you will experience less fear and more peace.","author":"Kimberly Giles","tags":["choices","lessons","peace"],"id":50452,"author_id":"Kimberly+Giles"},{"text":"I believe the higher power in the universe is compassionate, understanding, and all-knowing, and that there is nothing you can do that will change His love for you. I believe God’s love for you is infinite and absolute, and your value as an irreplaceable, unique, one-of-a-kind, divine soul is infinite and absolute too, because it is based in God’s love for you. Does this make sense to you, the way it does to me? I believe this is truth. I believe your value is not on the line; that your value is literally absolute and unchangeable. You have the same infinite value no matter what you do or don’t do. I believe you are a perfect and divine creation and as such your value is secure forever, no matter how many mistakes (driven by fear and misconception) you make down here. I believe God understands that your mistakes are part of your learning process. Mistakes teach you beautiful and important lessons. It makes no sense to condemn you for being lost, confused, scared and stupid down here, when for the most part we all are. We are doing the best we can with what we know, but we don’t know enough and are no where close to perfect. I believe God wants you to keep learning and growing, but that He loves you and accepts you as you are right now.","author":"Kimberly Giles","tags":["god-s-love","safety","unconditional-love"],"id":50533,"author_id":"Kimberly+Giles"},{"text":"When you experience the clarity that comes when you choose trust and love, you can see other people accurately – as the same as you.","author":"Kimberly Giles","tags":["clarity","love","trust"],"id":60051,"author_id":"Kimberly+Giles"},{"text":"You have probably worked your entire life to create a sense of identity around your job, your family, your hobbies, or your physical characteristics. But none of these is who you really are. You are not what you look like. You are not your family. You are not your job, income, or performance. You are not your current situation or the mistakes you have made. Mistakes are just locations on your journey; they have nothing to do with who you are, and neither does what you do or how successful you are. You are bigger than all those things. You are much more than just a businessman or a mom or a student. You are a divine, irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind, amazing, loving, eternal being, and your value comes from that fact alone. You come from God, who is love, which to me would mean - you are love too. You have to be. And if you are love then nothing you do or don’t do can change your value, because no matter what you do or how many mistakes you make, you are still YOU; you are still LOVE. You can’t help it. You cannot be anything else.","author":"Kimberly Giles","tags":["identity","love","who-you-are"],"id":82638,"author_id":"Kimberly+Giles"},{"text":"Most people think that once they lose the weight or make more money they will finally feel good about them themselves, but they are usually disappointed when they get there to find they don’t feel better. This happens because real self-worth can’t be earned. Real self-worth comes from understanding the truth about who you are and understanding that your value is infinite and absolute no matter what. This is the only way to peace.","author":"Kimberly Giles","tags":["self-esteem","self-worth","self-worthiness"],"id":83004,"author_id":"Kimberly+Giles"},{"text":"You are an irreplaceable, one-of-a-kind, amazing being. There will never be another you and this fact alone makes you infinitely and absolutely valuable. Having absolute value means you cannot be diminished by anything or anyone. You are bulletproof and nothing can change your value.","author":"Kimberly Giles","tags":["self-esteem","self-worth","your-value"],"id":100599,"author_id":"Kimberly+Giles"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":28,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}