You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.

When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said "hush" just once.

In university, they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Humor distorts nothing, and only false gods are laughed off their pedestals.

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

To say something nice about yourself, this is the hardest thing in the world for people to do. They'd rather take their clothes off.