"A man cannot be comfortable without his..." - Quote by Mark Twain
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. There is nothing more satisfying than that sense of being completely "at home" in your own skin. When you achieve that as a natural state of "being", then you can finally look beyond yourself and fully contribute all your talents to the world.
More by Mark Twain
“All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood.”
“Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.”
“I don't want no better book than what your face is.”
More on Self Acceptance
“you don't need to be better than any one else you just need to be better than you used to be”
“I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you.”
“Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner.”
More on Self Esteem
“Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits.”
“It is as proper to have pride in oneself as it ridiculous to show it to others.”
“When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing.”