Byron Katie Quotes

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

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.

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.

If you live for people’s acceptance you will die from their rejection.

Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.

Before, I thought I was actually fighting for my own self-worth; that is why I so desperately wanted people to like me. I thought their liking me was a comment on me, but it was a comment on them.

I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

I am an approval junkie.

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

I don't really know how accepted I am. Nothing ever matters to me apart from the people with negative opinions. That's literally it. That always drives me on to the next thing. It's funny, you just focus on them and then the next movie. That's the only thing you're thinking about when it comes out.

When you say, "I need more confidence," what you're really saying is, "I need those people over there to approve of me." That is the desire to control other people and what they think. The first person who figures out how to do this owns the world.

If you worry about what other people think of you, then you will have more confidence in their opinion than you have in your own.

I manage to think twice about everything / Why will they like me as they do / Or not as they do / Why will they praise me as they do / Or praise me not not as they do.

The world consists mainly of love slobs who need other people's approval. Most people don't live their own lives very well.

Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.

Tend to choose what is popular over what is right when they are in conflict. They desire to fit in both at church and outside of church; they care more about what people think of their actions (like church attendance and giving) than what God thinks of their hearts and lives.

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.

Whenever you are too worried about someone else's approval, that person loses respect for you.

People striving for approval from others become phony.

I want people to like me, and I care what they think.

We [people] love ourselves with conditions. We need opinions, we need approval, we create an image of ourselves that is not what we are. This how we lose our authenticity and create masks - how we become "domesticated."

As for worrying about what other people might think - forget it. They aren't concerned about yours. They're too busy worrying about what you and other people think of theirs.

The people who receive the most approval in life are the ones who care the least about it--so technically, if you want the approval of others, you need to stop caring about it.

What Do You Care What Other People Think?