You have to care about how good you are and how good you feel, but not about how good people think you are or how good people think you look.
Interpretation
Focus on self-improvement and self-acceptance rather than seeking external validation.
In this quote, Amy Poehler emphasizes the importance of personal standards and self-perception over the opinions of others. It encourages individuals to prioritize their own feelings of worth and competence instead of being preoccupied with how they are judged by others, which can be liberating and lead to genuine self-acceptance.
In practice
During a motivational workshop on self-esteem, to encourage self-worth.
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.
Itβs very hard to have ideas. Itβs very hard to put yourself out there, itβs very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.
After all, if you make your enemy look like a fool, you lose the justification for engaging him.
Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?'.
We have to choose between what is right, and what is easy.
Because he (the Sage) demands no honor, he will never be dishonored.
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