Ageless Wisdom is etched in the belly of the Earth, and you are one with Its Soul.

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters.

You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.