Hugh Prather Quotes

I feel that others live up to me, if they want me.

I've gone through my whole life caring deeply what people think of me.

Needing approval is like saying 'your view of me is more important than my own opinion of myself'.

I think I prioritize other people's opinions of me very highly, which is not necessarily a good thing - it's a thing that causes a lot of anxiety.

I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.

I cannot be so bad when everybody is so fond of me.

I've always been looking for other people's approval.

I'm always trying to prove myself to the rest of the world.

You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you realize how seldom they do.

Thus her whole identity hangs in the balance of her love life. She is allowed to love herself only if a man finds her worthy of love.

They're just opinions, what people say about you. None of that stuff's true. The only thing that matters is what you think of yourself.

I've given up trying to understand what people think about me.

It gets dangerous when you start allowing people to validate your work.

She lacks confidence, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on the reflections of herself in the eyes of others. She does not dare to be herself.

It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.

Self-esteem is not based on itself.

As you care less about what people think of you, you will care more about what others think of themselves.

You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.

Many people allow their need for other people's approval to control their lives. They spend their lives worrying about what others think of them.

We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?

Being called gorgeous is not a bad thing! But at the same time, I don’t want to thrive on people’s opinions of me.

I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.

If we do not respect ourselves, we are on the one hand forced to despise those who have so few resources as to consort with us, so little perception as to remain blind to our fatal weaknesses. On the other, we are peculiarly in thrall to everyone we see, curiously determined to live out — since our self-image is untenable — their false notions of us… We play roles doomed to failure before they are begun, each defeat generating fresh despair at the urgency of divining and meeting the next demand made upon us.

I'm an Aries. I need everybody to like me.

It makes me envious of anybody who can say truly that they don't care what anybody thinks of what they do, because I care a lot about the people who like my stuff.