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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.