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“We're high on the adrenaline of feeling, even though we know it's fleeting and evanescence. And we're getting worse -- checking texts and emails and Facebook every five minutes, always searching for that next hit of feeling, that next morsel of approval.”
― Deborah Meyler, The Bookstore

tags: adrenaline, approval-of-others, social-media

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“In that moment, I felt, for the first time, that nothing brings so much joy in life as being approved of by someone.”
― Eunjin Jang, No One Writes Back

tags: approval-of-others

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“If you are an approval addict, your behaviour is as easy to control as that of any other junkie. All a manipulator need do is a simple two-step process: Give you what you crave, and then threaten to take it away. Every drug dealer in the world plays this game.”
― Harriet B. Braiker, Who's Pulling Your Strings? How to Break the Cycle of Manipulation and Regain Control of Your Life

tags: addiction, approval-of-others, manipulation

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“Sometimes he felt as if he'd been born in the wrong century. The people of this time were all wrong for him, and he was all wrong for them. But he refused to become something he wasn't just for society's approval.”
― Heather Massey, The Watchmaker's Lady

tags: approval-of-others, clockpunk, steampunk

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“Christ continually shouts through the universe, "You have a love that is already yours. You have nothing to prove to anyone. You have nothing to prove to Me. You are significant and preapproved and utterly cherished. Not because you are 'good,' but because you are Mine.”
― Jennifer Dukes Lee, Love Idol: Letting Go of Your Need for Approval - and Seeing Yourself Through God's Eyes

tags: approval, approval-of-others

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