My Exquisite Purple Life Quotes

“For most of my life, I thought that if only I could gain the expressed approval of my parents, my sister, my husband, my friends, my coworkers, my neighbors, etc., I would finally be able to feel good about myself. Eventually, I realized that expressed approval from others didn’t actually do any good; in fact, it kept me in the position of having my worth defined by others. If my worth was defined by others, then the state of my worth—good or bad—was in the hands of others, and as a result, was subjective at best and infinitely precarious at worst.”
― Aideen T. Finnola, My Exquisite Purple Life: Insights from a Woman Who Never Should Have Made It but Did.