You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.