Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

I don't want to stand with somebody's praise.

Until you divest yourself of the notion that you are a collection of needs, an empty vessel that someone else must fill up, there will be no safe place to harbor yourself, no safe shore to reach. As long as you think mostly of getting, you will have nothing real to give.

You must begin to trust yourself sometime. I suggest you do it now. If you do not then you will forever be looking to others to prove your own merit to you, and you will never be satisfied. You will always be asking others what to do, and at the same time, resenting those from whom you seek such aid.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, and then I'm gonna rip it off.

It doesn't matter that I didn't win a trophy because I did it my way and I lived the dream.

Our dependency makes slaves out of us, especially if this dependency is a dependency of our self-esteem. If you need encouragement, praise, pats on the back from everybody, then you make everybody your judge.

I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction.

I don't really focus on other people's expectations of me. I only care what my own expectations are.

I've had to wean myself away to make sure that any choices I make are grounded in myself rather than the seeking of approval.

The hardest part of living without social media was remembering that my little life was enough, so I could just stay there and live it without asking for anyone else's permission or validation. I realized that for me, posting is like asking the world, 'Do you 'like' me?'

I don't ever want to have to need someone again - where you feel like, without them, you can't be yourself.

Don't depend on other people as the source of your happiness or for approval.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain. You have a new source of doubt and apprehension.

If you don't live by the praise of men you won't die by their criticism.

We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.

I'm having a bad day. I am not size six. My legs are not skinny as sticks, and dammit, someone's got to pay. I'm afraid that I can't satisfy myself and that my happiness depends on someone else. I feel weak, so you're gonna take the fall. You're so shallow.

What other people think of me is none of my business. One of the highest places you can get to is being independent of the good opinions of other people.

So long as you are still worried about what others think of you, you are owned by them. Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.

I'm hesitant to judge people. My favorite saying is "you do you." But, hopefully, you don't have to seek external validation from others to feel good about yourself.

We can never do the right thing as long as we are out to please someone else.

My identity depended on men for so long. You can be successful and still have the feeling that if you're not with a man you don't exist.

I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own shoulders, but I wasn't willing to give myself a pat on the back. I was always looking to somebody else to give me that. .. That was all wrong.