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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.