C. S. Lewis Quotes

It feels nice to be wanted, to be reading and hearing good things about me, so I have to push myself.

I would never exchange my life with anybody else's.

It feels good to hear good things about yourself.

When people say good things about me, judge me based on my behaviour and work, that makes me happier than a film's success would.

When the best manager in the world says you're one of his favourite players, you act like it's nothing, but you still can't help but have a smile on your lips.

What happens when we begin to praise our own abilities? And this is not focusing on an inflated ego, but on appreciation and praise. What happens when we begin sincerely to give thanks for our wonderful minds and our strong and healthy bodies? It's not at all difficult to believe that our own senses of confidence and self-worth are actually activated and strengthened.

I have taken pride in others, never in myself.

Positive self-esteem is the quality of simply saying thank you and accepting any value that is attributed to you by others.

When you are able to applaud yourself, it is much easier to applaud others.

You can be pleased with nothing if you are not pleased with yourself.

I'm living the life I love, I tell myself, and loving the life I live. I tell myself: I deserved this. This is exactly what I wanted.

Screen credit is valuable only when it's given you. If you're in a position to give yourself credit, you don't need it.

One of a person's greatest emotional needs is to feel appreciated. Start by appreciating yourself.

Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.

I'm only... I'm only unhappy when the reviews are bad, but give me a good review and I'm a... I'm just screaming all over the place with joy.

I learned to accept the audience's happiness for me, which is one of the hardest things for me to learn.

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.

I do not equate productivity to happiness. For most people, happiness in life is a massive amount of achievement plus a massive amount of appreciation. And you need both of those things.

That's an important lesson for me, to not qualify my experience against somebody else's. My experience is the experience that I wanted to have, and have created for myself, but it doesn't make me any more deserving than anybody else - or less.

I suppose if it has a practical purpose, I appreciate a pat on the back. I suppose it's rewarding, ultimately.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

I don't really feel that I deserve all my applause.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

It's really about being pleased with yourself.