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“To seek approval is to have no resting place, no sanctuary. Like all judgment, approval encourages a constant striving. It makes us uncertain of who we are and of our true value. Approval cannot be trusted. It can be withdrawn at any time no matter what our track record has been. It is as nourishing of real growth as cotton candy. Yet many of us spend our lives pursuing it.”
Rachel Naomi Remen
“We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that”
Mark Twain
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and famous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in all of us. And when we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
Maryanne Williamson
“A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval”
“Material things aside, we need no advice but approval.”
Coco Chanel
“People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.”
Wayne Dyer
“Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment.”
Oscar Wilde
“I can spot empty flattery and know exactly where I stand. In the end it's really only my own approval or disapproval that means anything.”
Agnetha Faltskog
“If all the world hated you, and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved you, and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.”
Charlotte Bronte
