{"quotes":[{"text":"You are worthless to others if you don't know your own self and self-worth.","author":"Bryant McGill","tags":["knowing","self-worth","worthlessness"],"id":1506,"author_id":"Bryant+McGill"},{"text":"But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind.","author":"Laura Hillenbrand","tags":["captivity","complex-ptsd","dehumanization","dehumanize","held-captive","inhumane","no-longer-human","prisoners-of-war","self-respect","survivors-of-war","traumatic-experiences","traumatized","war","worthlessness"],"id":47774,"author_id":"Laura+Hillenbrand"},{"text":"It is not through fighting the opposition that will win you dignity. It is when you fight the fear in yourself that asks you why you don't feel you have it, regardless if you win or lose.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["attitude","beautiful-minds","beautiful-souls","choice","choose-the-right","class","confidence","courage","dignified","dignity","doubts","empowering-women","having-dignity","loathing","lose","loving-others","loving-yourself","respect","self-aware","self-awareness","self-doubt","self-empowerment","self-esteem","self-improvement","self-love","self-reliance","self-respect","self-worth","standing-for-right","standing-for-yourself","unconditional-love","win","worth","worthiness","worthlessness","worthy"],"id":66057,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convinced that it's dying and produces an acid that eats away at you from the inside, until all that's less is a scary hollowness. Your mind fills with dark thoughts; you become convinced that your friends secretly hate you, you're worthless, and then there's no hope. I never got so low as to consider ending it all, but I understand how that can happen to some people. Depression simply hurts too much.","author":"Tyler Hamilton","tags":["acid","depressed","depression","depression","empathy","emptiness","emptiness-in-heart","hopeless","hurt","mental-disorder","mental-health","mental-illness","mind","misunderstood","pain","poison","psychology","psychotherapy","suicidality","suicide","toxic","worthlessness"],"id":123701,"author_id":"Tyler+Hamilton"},{"text":"Failure is another emotion I cannot stand to feel, because in adult life I have conditioned myself not to fail at anything. Failure takes me straight back to the feelings of worthlessness I grew up with as a stammering, reclusive little boy.","author":"Jake Wood","tags":["failure","fear-of-failure","insecure","insecure-attachment","need-to-succeed","overachievement","unbearable","worthless","worthlessness"],"id":169841,"author_id":"Jake+Wood"},{"text":"The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides.","author":"Donna Tartt","tags":["books","corrosive","shame","taint","tainted","torment","worthless","worthlessness"],"id":176943,"author_id":"Donna+Tartt"},{"text":"A man though carrying God may be of no worth to himself, to his family, to his nation and to the people around him.","author":"Sunday Adelaja","tags":["family","god","life","man","nation","nature","people","self-image","self-worth","uselessness","worth","worthlessness"],"id":261138,"author_id":"Sunday+Adelaja"},{"text":"Every time you feel like mocking a person you disagree with politically by implying that they are mentally ill, I want you to instead imagine you are talking to every single person who actually is mentally ill and telling them they are worthless. That's how it makes mentally ill people feel. Doesn't seem very progressive now does it?","author":"Ariel Howland","tags":["crazy","labelling","mental-disorder","mental-disorder-bias","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness-discrimination","mentally-disturbed","mocking","politics","prejudice","progressive","stigma","stigmatization","stigmatized","worthlessness"],"id":313440,"author_id":"Ariel+Howland"},{"text":"A man who truly knows himself realizes his own worthlessness, and takes no pleasure in the praises of men.","author":"Thomas à Kempis","tags":["know-yourself","knowledge","pleasure","praise","worthlessness"],"id":329467,"author_id":"Thomas+%C3%A0+Kempis"},{"text":"Whatever it was her father wanted, Emma did not know how to provide it. She felt confused by what he did, and imagined the problem was a lack in her, rather than him. And there was something.","author":"Carol Lee","tags":["emotional-needs","emotional-neglect","father","worthlessness"],"id":337907,"author_id":"Carol+Lee"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":14,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}