You get the most approval when you care the least about it.
Interpretation
True approval comes when you focus less on seeking validation from others.
This quote emphasizes the idea that genuine approval and acceptance often arise when one is not overly concerned with what others think. When individuals prioritize their own values and self-acceptance, they radiate confidence that attracts authentic admiration from others. Therefore, the less one seeks external validation, the more they are likely to receive it as a byproduct of living authentically.
In practice
In a speech about self-growth, one might say, 'Remember, you get the most approval when you care the least about it.'
What is hope but a feeling of optimism, a thought that says things will improve, it won't always be bleak, there's a way to rise above the present circumstances. Hope is an internal awareness that you do not have to suffer forever, and that somehow, somewhere there is a remedy for despair that you will come upon if you can only maintain this expectancy in your heart.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Live forgiveness every day rather than just talking about it on Sunday.
Say to Yourself when Someone Else is Criticizing U, 'What U Think of Me is None of My Business'
Conflict is a violation of harmony. If you participate in it, you're part of the problem, not the solution.
My own eight children all march to the beat of their inner music, and in some cases, it is definitely far away from what I hear. I've had to honor their instincts and their choices, and merely guided them out of harm's way until they could be their own guides.
When you run after your thoughts, you are like a dog chasing a stick
We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies
I sometimes still go out hunting for bad weather, flying low in simple airplanes to explore the inner reaches of the clouds. Less experienced pilots occasionally join me, not to learn formal lessons about weather flying, but with a more advanced purpose in mind - to accompany me in the slow accumulation of experience through circumstances that never repeat in a place that defies mastery.
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to the same set of ideas.
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light of their dark-lanterns over some books they found, and thus absorbing moral truths and getting moral uplift. The whole course of their lives would have been changed. As it was, they kept straight on in their immoral way and were sent to jail. For all I know, they may next be sent to Congress.
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