“I'm not afraid to lose people. I'm afraid to lose myself trying to please people.”— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com
“Consumerism too is a virtual reality game. You gain points by acquiring new cars, buying expensive brands and taking vacations abroad, and if you have more points than everybody else, you tell yourself you won the game.”— Yuval Noah Harari, theguardian.com
“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“you cannot please everyone, nor should you try to; that is a recipe for self-loathing waiting to happen.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com
“We don’t have to morph into something disingenuous for the sake of appeasing others.”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“No one’s comfort is more important than my peace of mind and well-being, and I need to stop feeling guilty about that.”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“Get comfortable saying no. Once a people-pleaser realizes the world won’t crumble into smithereens if she says no or changes her mind, it’s a new day.”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“I wish for a speedy death to the chill girl within all of us, a kiss of death to the malleable shell of ourselves surviving only on our socialized compulsion to people please. And a long and fruitful life to the woman who has patiently been waiting underneath.”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“A fixation on being perceived as nice or ‘sooo chill’ is a colossal waste of time.”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“Perhaps the most exhausting part of the charade was time spent watching myself through the lens of others; contorting myself into something more palatable for the next person; shouldering guilt and expectations that weren’t mine to bear.”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”— Eleanor Roosevelt,, bigbluegumball.com
“But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.”— Chris Colfer, en.wikiquote.org
“I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com