Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

If you're not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it's hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that's really not an ingredient for a happy life.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I've been surrounded by a lot of people who felt that external success would result in them feeling good about themselves. But it just seems extremely unfulfilling to me.

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

I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.

I don't feel like I have to prove anybody right or wrong.

If you don't have self love you can never find it outside of yourself.

I think the difference between being miserable and finding happiness is just a matter of perspective. If you live your life defining yourself by what other people think of you, it's a form of self-torture.

Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?

I can be happy with who I am, not what I should be, or what I might have been, or what someone tells me I must be.

No one is happy unless he respects himself.

Don't look to the approval of others for your mental stability

My mother always taught me, even my dad, just never let other people's opinions of you shape your opinion of yourself. And I never have and I never will.

What other people think about me is not my business.

If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

You can get totally messed up trying to please everyone with what you do, but ultimately, you have to please yourself.

I'm not concerned with what people think of me.

Do I really need to prove anything to anybody? I don't feel that I have to prove anything. The only thing that I have to prove is to myself, that I have value.

I've never lived my life in the opinion of others. I believe I'm a good person. I believe I'm a good mom. But that's for my kids to decide, not for the world.

I do not think I am successful just because I have money. I'm successful because I love who I am and I have no regrets, and I'm successful because I have a great heart and I have compassion and I care and I would be happy with or without money.

What other people think of you is none of your business.

I have spent far too many years trying to make everybody like me. It's not possible. People can say or think what they want.

I'm a huge believer in you don't really need anybody to make you feel validated or make you feel secure. When you go to sleep at night, you're with yourself, and when you wake up, you're with yourself. Be happy, just alone, regardless if you're with somebody or not.

I'm not focused on what other people think of me.

What other people think of me is none of my business.