A Quote by Byron Katie

Spare yourself from seeking love, approval, or appreciation-from anyone. And watch what happens in reality, just for fun.

Byron Katie

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Anyone Appreciation Approval Fun Happens Just Just For Fun Love Reality Seeking Seeking Love Spare Watch Yourself

Quote Author

Byron Katie
American - Author
Born: December 6, 1942

If I had a prayer, it would be this: "God, spare me from the desire for love, approval, or appreciation. Amen."

Byron Katie

Don't seek approval. This may be the toughest suggestion for you to follow -- and the most important. Whether you'te a teenager seeking approval from your peers, a middle-aged parent seeking the approval of your kids, or a man or woman seeking the approval of a partner, it all amounts to the same thing. You're giving your personal power away every time you seek validation from someone else for who you are.

T. J. MacGregor

If you're conscientiously seeking approval, you're not being true to yourself.

Tomas Kalnoky

I think Desperate Housewives is a pretty good show, I watch it, I like it and I don't love reality tv that much. I do watch some, I've got three daughters so we'll watch the good stuff, the fun stuff.

Bob Saget

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect - we all love it!

Tom Peters

I do like reality shows, and I watch some of them because they're high drama. It's also just fun to watch people have honest reactions.

Lisa Kudrow

Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.

David Richo

I must work harder to achieve my goal of not seeking approval from those whose approval I'm not even sure is important to me.

Lauren Graham

If you're having fun being yourself and filming something that you would watch yourself, it becomes contagious for other people to watch, too.

Zoe Sugg

It's very fun to be single, because you know what happens? You find yourself. You understand what it means to love yourself, instead of putting all this energy into give-and-tug in a relationship.

Keke Palmer

Whenever I talk to anyone I care about, I am always seeking approval. There is always a pleading lilt in my voice that demands love. Even the people I work with, the ones I am supposed to have a professional relationship with, all business, get pulled into my need. I can't help it. I want to be adored.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

Loving humanity means as much, and as little, as loving raindrops, or loving the Milky Way. You say that you love humanity? Are you sure you aren’t treating yourself to easy self-congratulation, seeking approval, making certain you’re on the right side?

Julian Barnes

When you have your chance to make a film, don't focus on pleasing everyone. I think the goal is to live in that sweet spot where you focus on making a good film and you have fun with your collaborators, but you don't waste your energy chasing approval every which way. When you have a vision and a good story and you've managed to raise funding, it is your approval as a director that everyone should be seeking. It's very simple.

Jennifer Phang

There's an appreciation of the whole picture of life as opposed to just ambition and circumstance and all the stuff that happens in this business. You find yourself lucky enough to be working with somebody really talented who you know and who you trust.