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I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.
Sep 25, 2025
Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
Self-approval is a dangerous state of mind.
It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.
And that is enough to raise your thoughts to what may happen when the redeemed soul, beyond all hope and nearly beyond belief, learns at last that she has pleased Him whom she was created to please. There will be no room for vanity then. She will be free from the miserable illusion that it is her doing. With no taint of what we should now call self-approval she will most innocently rejoice in the thing that God has made her to be, and the moment which heals her old inferiority complex forever will also drown her pride… Perfect humility dispenses with modesty.
Self-approval and self-acceptance in the now are the main keys to positive changes in every area of our lives.
What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.
It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval.
People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions. And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval. Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity.
Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people.
Shut your eyes so the heart may become your eye, and with that vision look upon another world. If you can step away from your need for self-approval, all that you do, top to bottom, will be approved.
You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.
Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Because one believes in oneself, one doesn't try to convince. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn't need others' approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.
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