We are equal by fault, but never equal in acceptance.
Sometimes you must agree with someones opinion for the sake of being polite and modest, but within you, you know that you are not foolish and crazy.
(n.) Approbation; sanction.
More people would be depressed, if parents tried to please their children as frequently and as badly as children try to please their parents.
I refuse to hold the coats of this generation.
Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar...
The less approval I get, the more chances I have to develop a relationship with my inner sense of approval. Thankless environments are actually useful for this. They help me discover my own thankfulne...
Stop worrying about approval and appreciation. Enjoy the beauty and effect of contributing to the universe.
Don't beg for approval or expect respect. Respect comes from within and your choice to allow people to take it from you, by how you teach them to treat you.
When you live your life seeking the opinion and approval of others, you become a slave in your mind and soul to others. This is the worst form of slavery.
If you find yourself craving approval, you are low on self-love. Stop grasping for a few scraps wherever you can. Go home and make yourself a feast. Love yourself deeply today.
There is something about yourself that you don't know. Something that you will deny even exists until it's too late to do anything about it. It's the only reason you get up in the morning, the only re...
You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.
When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.
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.
If they don't like you for who you are, it means they're not meant to be in your life.
It is unpleasant and disturbing to be rejected. It is deeply satisfying to be accepted.
But presidential approval also became a surrogate measure of national unity and patriotism.
A truly strong person does not need the approval of others any more than a lion needs the approval of sheep.
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 postpones...