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.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.