Inner Approval Quotes

They will often tell me they can't love themselves because they are so fat, or as one girl put it, 'too round at the edges.' I explain that they are fat because they don't love themselves. When we begin to love and approve of ourselves, it's amazing how weight just disappears from our bodies.

Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves. A better path is to write what pleases you and pray that there are others like you. Your first and most important reader is you. If you write a book that pleases you, at least you know one person will like it.

And the way he looked at her was so intense, his big green eyes probing into her, like he approved of everything she held inside.

I fell in love with my voice. I had something inside of me that was like, 'I like this.'

If you can't impress yourself, then no one else really matters.

It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

Placerea este testul naturii, semnul ei aprobator.

I feel like I don't really care about impressing other people. I thoroughly enjoy impressing myself.

He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent.

The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain.

You have not found your place until all your faculties are roused, and your whole nature consents and approves of the work you are doing.

I pray because I am real clear that what I am doing and how I am doing it is my service, is my ministry, and so I want to be in perfect alignment with my creator. I do not care who you are. If I do not get the okay on the inside, you will not be showing up on the outside.

Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it--right, my friends?