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“When you release yourself from the need for approval and control you can stop punishing yourself and others.”
“I need not present my actions, my words, myself for somebody else's approval. And basing my decisions on somebody else's approval or making my own approval contingent on somebody else's only postpo...”
“Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval!”
“I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.”
“We tend to live down to other peoples expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more difficult to obtain approval of people who hold us in high regard than to accept the lower standa...”
“Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has brought his enemy (conscience) within his gates; and it keeps watch over him, v...”
“A motto of the human race: Let me do as I like, and give me approval as well.”
“You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmainism”
“Life is too short to waste time waiting for other people's approval on how you live it.”
“Don’t try to make anyone like you. Work on you and the right people will be drawn to you. Mind games consume energy that could have been used on something more productive and fulfilling.”
“When you are your own best friend, you don’t endlessly seek out relationships, friendships, and validation from the wrong sources because you realize that the only approval and validation you need ...”
“Find yourself first…like yourself first…love yourself FIRST…& friendship & love will naturally find YOU.”
“Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.”
“God’s approval should be your standard for success.”
“Pursuing a dream without God’s approval is as dangerous as walking on a rope bridge over a big gutter? Guess the end….!”
“Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”
“If I were surrounded by people who always approved of me, I wouldn’t need such a deep relationship with my own sense of right and wrong. And you know what that means? It means that other people’s a...”
“We tend to live down to other people’s expectations, especially the people closest to us. It is more difficult to obtain approval of people who hold us in high regard than to accept the lower stand...”
